"I think drug addicts have brains wired like adventurers and they didn't get the opportunity to find it. You know, the people I get to work with - not all of them are well-adjusted. Some of them are driven by heavy demons."

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Source : "An Interview with Richard Branson, Jimmy Chin, and Ben Stookesberry". Interview With Paul Solotaroff, www.mensjournal.com.

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“The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.”
“Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the surface of the planet. Youâ€™re no longer just a human being walking around in the regular world. Youâ€™re a human animal striding around on the surface of the planet thatâ€™s out in the middle of the galaxy. We as a culture, weâ€™re forgettingÂ that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very deep connection and contact with nature. You canâ€™t divorce civilization from nature. We totally depend on it.”
“Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.”
“It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.”
“Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.”
“It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.”
“Education is the best economic policy there is.”
“The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.”

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