February 2012
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Some dreams you never forget.
I had this one dream where you go down this real big hill, but it has real long grass and then a whole lot of bananas down the floor of this hill - but they’re all spread all over and growing from the ground, like each one separate.
I remember that and then we was skating across that. I don’t know how we were, but all you do is you pour this stuff out that we made...
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Now and then he ate a piece of raw carrot, himself. The outside part is best. It comes off in a thick, solid ring, and it is sweet. The inside part is juicier, and clear like yellow ice, but it has a thin, sharp taste.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
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There has to be a certain enigma in it, which does not immediately catch the eye.
-M.C. Escher
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And your own life while it’s happening to you never has any atmosphere until it’s a memory.
― Andy Warhol
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No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn to control and discipline over the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self-deception, fear, and inhibition.
There is no substitute for courage, and the victory is to the high-hearted.
-Jack Parsons, Freedom is a...
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Sagan commented that those planning NASA missions to Mars should be open to discovering the unexpected.
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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for it has often proved true that the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
— Robert Goddard
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The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.
-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books
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