"A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading."

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Source : Italo Calvino (2014). “Why Read the Classics?”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Italo Calvino

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“Some people are very identified, say with their country or maybe with their worshipping style , whatever it is. All these misidentifications have to be given up. It is very difficult for people because they are so conditioned and as long as you have conditioning you cannot rise above your mind, which is a myth, you cannot.”
“There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.”
“Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things,' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'”
“A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.”
“After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.”

Source : "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, March 15, 1991.
“When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.”
“The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.”
“The global financial system consists of firms in the financial services sector - banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and the like - and various governmental agencies who are charged with regulating these firms.”

Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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