"I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles."

-- Erez Lieberman Aiden

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“Everything is always a little surreal.”
“Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.”
“"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and then in the first chorus, I'm sort of protesting it. It's like, "I don't think you know what's best for me." And then by the end, it's like I've given in, and it becomes very desperate.”
“If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.”

Source : "'We Couldn't Just Sit Back and Do Nothing'". Interview with Michael Sauga,Anne Seith, www.spiegel.de. October 29, 2012.
“I miss Colombia. It's a great place.”
“I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.”
“You can never get rid of fear, you can only drop it.”
“Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”

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