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“New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.”
Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.76, Penguin
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“It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.”
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“The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.”
Source : Vine Deloria, Jr., James Treat (2013). “For This Land: Writings on Religion in America”, p.5, Routledge
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“We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in any form that interested us, anyway, and the next you couldn't miss them; they were everywhere, all over the place. One moment you wanted to clonk them on the head for being your sister, or someone else's sister, and the next you wanted to....actually, we didn't know what we wanted next, but it was something. Almost overnight, all these sisters (there was no other kind of girl, not yet)had become interesting, disturbing, even.”
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“At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.”
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“Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.”
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“Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.”
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“The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?”
Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005. 
