"Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women."

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Alex Kapranos

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“The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.”
“It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the street did not particularly cherish what they said. Socrates was killed.”
“A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described at the University of Chicago and at M.I.T. A Chicago economist derived the formula and said, "Look at how few firms you need to get close to infinite elasticities and perfect competition." An M.I.T. economist derived the same formula and said, "Look at how large n has to be before you get anywhere close to an infinite elasticity and perfect competition."”
“Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.37, Ardent Media
“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.”

Source : "Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing". Submitted to the National Physical Laboratory in 1948. "Key Papers: Cybernetics". Book edited by C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson, 1968.
“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
“You see, Dash -- I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head. I think we both knew that. It's only when we try to make the girl or boy in our head real that the true trouble comes. I did that with Carlos, and it was a bad failure. Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.”
“Go to bed; tired is stupid.”

Source : Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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