"For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind."

-- Marcus Aurelius

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“San Francisco is the only city in America where ***** is legal but plastic bags are not.”
“It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something- anything- far bigger than yourself.”

Source : Game Developers Conference, 2011.
“I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.”

Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”
“People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.”
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”
“When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.”
“The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.”

Source : "Spreading the Word: A Deaf Boy Joins the Gang" by Elizabeth Jensen, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2006.
“The pedal is the soul of the piano.”

Source : Anton Rubinstein, Teresa Carreño (2013). “The Art of Piano Pedaling: Two Classic Guides”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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