"God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it."

-- Adrian Rogers

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“I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.”
“Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.”

Source : "The era of Facebook is an anomaly". Interview with Ellis Hamburger, www.theverge.com. March 13, 2014.
“I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.”
“Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.”
“Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.”

Source : Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.136, Pan Macmillan
“If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.”
“When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”
“Language is the archives of history.”

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