Open Set Condition

Famous quotes containing the words open, set and/or condition:

    “I am Black because I come from the earth’s inside
    now take my word for jewel in the open light.”
    —Audre Lorde (b. 1934)

    “It’s the set of the sails and not the gales,
    That bids them where to go.”
    —Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919)

    “The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)