"One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women"

-- Charles Fourier

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“Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles. Others talk about stories that are "plot-driven," as if the plot were neither the highway nor the automobile, but the chauffeur. Others seem to have plot phobia and say they never plot. Still others turn up their noses at the very notion, as if there's something artificial, fraudulent, contrived.”
“We're trying to fill something internal with something external. We're trying to fill something real with something illusionary.”
“When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.”
“Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.”
“I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.”
“If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.”
“In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.”

Source : "Wences Casares Explains Bitcoin". Chicago Gold Ideas Conference, www.weusecoins.com. March 16, 2015.
“Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.”

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