"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika."

-- Pedro Almodovar

“The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.”
“Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.”
“Kids are great in that they keep you on your toes. They're like a puzzle... in a blender, haha. You have to take the pieces out and try to put it together on the fly.”
“I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no work to do during the day. People come up to me, but they are generally really nice. New York makes it easier, for me at least. People manage to be enthusiastic and sort of sane at the same time. And thatâ€™s lovely.”
“Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.”
“There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences”
“Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.”

Source : Jacques Monod (1972). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, Vintage
“Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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