

“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
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“At the institute, Yorke enjoyed an unusual freedom to work on problems outside traditional domains, and he enjoyed frequent contact with experts in a wide range of disciplines. One of these experts, a fluid dynamicist, had come across Lorenz’s 1963 paper “Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow” in 1972 and had fallen in love with it, handing out copies to anyone who would take one. He handed one to Yorke.”
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“That is, I believe, because people think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.”
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