"Youâ€™re not leaving me here alone,â€ I say. Because if he dies, Iâ€™ll never go home, not really. Iâ€™ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out."

-- Suzanne Collins

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.”
“There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.”

Source : "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.
“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
“I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.
“Love and generosity are the simplest forms of peace.”
“With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.”
“I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.”
“Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.”

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