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“What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.”
Source : Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.369, Bantam
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“No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.”
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“But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.”
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“Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.”
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“You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, costume, expression-radically and correctly.”
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“Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.”
Source : "Google buys Nest Labs for $3.2bn in bid for smart home-devices market" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2014.
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“Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.”
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“Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.”
Source : "The Kranz Dictum". Gene Kranz's address to his branch and flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 disaster, January 30, 1967.