"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."

-- Robert Coveyou

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“Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.”
“I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.”
“Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch”

Source : Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Swan Song”, p.281, Open Road Media
“Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.”
“Max: "You'll never be good enough to deserve her, you know." Ash: "God doesn't always give you what you deserve," Ash said quietly. "Sometimes he gives you what you can't live without.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2011). “The Pleasure of Your Kiss”, p.504, Simon and Schuster
“Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present....Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because there is not enough presence in you to dissolve the past, not enough light to dispel the darkness. You are not fully here. You have not quite woken up yet. In the meantime, the conditioned mind is running your life.”
“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”
“Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.”

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