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“It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men”
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“My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.”
Source : "Party of one" by Andrew O'Hagan, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. May 09, 2013. 
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“Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.”
Source : Michael E. Mann (2013). “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines”, p.38, Columbia University Press
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“That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.”
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“All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.”
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“Whatever you think, don't never, unless you will.”
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“I was motivated by the fact that I wasn't happy with my play in this series and felt accountable to the guys. That's enough motivation to want to play well.”
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“The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.”
Source : "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.
