"Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy."

-- Bill Vaughan

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“The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.”

Source : Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner
“Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.”
“Let me tell you, I fall asleep on planes with my mouth open, and it certainly doesn't look very attractive.”
“You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.”
“I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.”
“Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.”

Source : Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.38, The Overlook Press
“I want to tell Tobet about when i was standing in this exact same place last summer, wishing for him to be real. But it's hard to remember life before Tobey. He makes eveything seem possible. Like whatever you feel is true, really true in your heart, you can make happen. And you just know, when it happens, its for real. And there are a million possibilities. Like the possibility of going separate ways. Together.”
“It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.25, A&C Black

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