"Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream."

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“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!”

“One of those heavenly days that cannot die.”

“And mighty poets in their misery dead.”

“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”

“Nature's old felicities.”

“But he is risen, a later star of dawn.”

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"In this atmosphere of charity, where all faiths were alike and all professions joined hands, the church and the world became one."

— Henry Adams

Politics1838–1918

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"What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks."

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Music1958

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"Many of the core ideas of cybernetics have been assimilated by other disciplines, where they continue to influence scientific developments. Other important cybernetic principles seem to have been forg…"

— Francis Heylighen

Education1960

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