"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."

-- Jacques Ellul

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“I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?”
“I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldnâ€™t be so hard, right?”

Source : "How To Write Your First Book". Interview with Sandra Allen, www.buzzfeed.com. November 21, 2013.
“Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed to govern it. They both fix the limits of what is considered as possible.”
“Guys don't seem to think this, but the stuff that girls talk about is more raunchy than what guys talk about in a football lockeroom.”

Source : Source: m.etonline.com
“To not to have entirely wasted oneâ€™s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”
“We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.”

Source : Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.212, Simon and Schuster
“...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.”
“People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply donâ€™t feel very much.”

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