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“The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.”
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“The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.”
Source : Song: The Truth, Album: Voyage to India
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“I agree with a lot of the points in Taleb's book, but I don't agree with many of his conclusions. It seems to me that he rightly points out that risk managers miss a lot of the risks, but the conclusion is that he draws, is that we should abandon risk management, whereas my conclusion is we should improve it.”
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“Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.”
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“We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There's no telling what we can accomplish.”
Source : "What Now? 22 Influential Citizens on the New American Era". www.esquire.com. January 20, 2009. 
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“I don't see why Christians should censor themselves out of any forum in which our perspectives can be heard. I disagree with the theology of many groups that I address; Jews, for example, who do not accept Jesus, or atheists.”
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“Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.”
Source : "Zadie Smith's rules for writers". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.
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“God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.”
Source : John Keble, G. M., George MOBERLY (Bishop of Salisbury.) (1869). “Miscellaneous poems ... Second edition. [The preface signed: G. M., i.e. George Moberly.]”, p.205
