"If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?"

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Source : "Big Think Interview with David Wessel". bigthink.com. November 20, 2009.

David Wessel

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“Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.”

Source : Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.159, Lion Fiction
“The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.”
“Fighting disparities is very significant.”
“I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.”
“I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.”
“Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?”
“The soufflÃ© is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.”
“Everyone within the sound of my voice has the power to increase a child’s confidence in himself or herself and to increase a child’s faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ through the words they speak.”

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