"We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff."

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Source : Ross Macdonald (2010). “Sleeping Beauty”, p.110, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Ross Macdonald

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“As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.”

Source : Carlo M. Cipolla (1970). “European culture and overseas expansion”
“There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.”

Source : "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 4), 1961.
“Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.”
“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.”
“To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.”

Source : "Amy Schumer Answers Your Questions About Sex, Comedy, and Feminism". Q&A with Readers, jezebel.com. April 29, 2014.
“It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.”

Source : Usa Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan, www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.
“I was actually a Cowboys fan.”
“Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.”

Source : "The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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