"No one is suggesting that [violent video games are] the only reason they went out and committed those horrific acts, but was it a tipping point? Was it something that pushed them over the edge? Was it a factor in that? Perhaps. That's a really big deal."

-- Jim Steyer

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“The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he doesn't cause it to happen. He doesn't contain it, and it doesn't contain him.”

Source : Joseph Chaikin (1993). “The Presence of the Actor”, p.10, Theatre Communications Group
“I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.”
“We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them. ... Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.”

Source : "Quietly in Their Sleep". Book by Donna Leon, www.wired.com. May 23, 1997.
“Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."”
“I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.”
“Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.”

Source : " Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis : Meditations on Computer Systems Development" by Patrick McDermott, (p. xix), 2002.
“Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.”
“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.”

Source : Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.

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