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"All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this."

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“It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'”

- Candis Cayne

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“In the days when I wasn't being taken seriously, I wore long skirts - very conservative. But now, I dress any way I want to.”

- Euzhan Palcy

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“Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.”

- Dolores Huerta

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“Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.”

- Michael Imperioli

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“Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.”

- Bernd Heinrich

Source/Notes: December 11 : Wind, p. 152 - A Year in the Maine Woods (1995)

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“The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.”

- Brian Sibley

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“I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.”

- Jimmy Wales

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“I had my trousers on at all times.”

- Anthony Stewart Head

Source/Notes: Anthony Stewart Head at Toronto Trek, July 12, 2003

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“I love the medium of film.”

- Tom Welling

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“Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far, Was pinned with a single star.”

- McDonald Clarke

Source/Notes: Death in Disguise (Boston edition, 1833), line 227. A number of variants are reported:

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“An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God.”

- Srinivasa Ramanujan

Source/Notes: Quoted in The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (1992) by Robert Kanigel, p. 67

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“Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.”

- Walter A. Shewhart

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“Take a straw and throw it up into the air — you may see by that which way the wind is.”

- John Selden

Source/Notes: Table Talk (1689)

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“In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.”

- Henri Bergson

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“Our national constitution shall prevail; the Union, which can alone insure internal peace and external security to each state, must and shall be preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.”

- George Brinton McClellan

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“For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.”

- Mitch Kapor

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“When she had done her work, she would go over to the chimney corner, and sit among the cinders.”

- Charles Perrault

Source/Notes: Cinderella

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