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M. C. Escher


I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

Ben Jonson


He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Gloria Anzaldua


The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Howard Thurman


Follow the grain in your own wood.

Sir Philip Sidney


Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_


There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

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