“The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.”
President Barack Obama
more infosource: “Obama statement on death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs,” Washington Post, October 5, 2011.
category: apple, inventor, Steve Jobs, technology, visionary
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“I know the look of green apples and peaches and pears on the trees, and I know how entertaining they are when they are inside of a person.”
Mark Twain
more infosource: Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 217.
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category: apple, farm, food, fruit, peach, pear
medium: autobiography
“The worm fattens on the apple, the young goose fattens on the wormy fruit, the man fattens on the young goose, the worm awaits the man.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “Cold Weather,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 345.
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category: apple, compost, cycle of life, farm, fruit, goose, nature, recycle, sustainability, worm
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in January 1943.
“Beginning a salad, was to him like stepping into sea water on a chilly day, and he had always to brace himself in order to attack the fortress of an apple.”
Vladimir Nabokov
more infosource: Pale Fire: A Novel (New York: Vintage, 1989), 21 (foreword).
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category: apple, challenging, eating, food, salad, sea
medium: fiction
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