"Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy."

-- Jacob M. Appel

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“Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.”
“I think challenge for Facebook is to develop a culture that has the advertiser and the ad service be as strong a part of their culture as the user obsession is.”
“I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.”
“Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.”
“Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.”
“What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.”
“You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.”
“Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.”

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