"We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet."

-- Joseph Campbell

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“There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.”
“Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.”
“I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.”
“I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.”
“Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.”
“Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.”
“Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.”

Source : Hyman Minsky (2008). “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, Part 3 - Economic Theory”, p.111, McGraw Hill Professional
“Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.114, B&H Publishing Group

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