"WOKING To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it."

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"He never deviated even in adverse situations, instead he accepted that to err or to forget something in order to learn something is not an offense."

— Vikram Sarabhai

Science1919–1971

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"When I was just a little girl in East Bay, California, I noticed that East Bay was pig Latin for “beast.” But I knew I had found my niche when I realized that Alice Faye was pig Latin for "phallus."

— Robert Patrick (playwright)

Entertainment1958

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"Socio-economic hardship breeds not only repression to force people to live with hardship, but also resistance, often in turn provoking repression in initial rounds, but in subsequent rounds quite poss…"

— Lars Rudebeck

Sociology1936

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"When I first started singing the anthem, my thoughts were always to sing it in a way that my father would like it to be sung— not just the sound, but also the intention. If you sing anything with inte…"

— Mark Donnelly

Music1960

#justice