"You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks."

-- Lou Gerstner

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“I think it's often easier to theorize in the official codes of theory rather than to theorize lightly through scene, object, story, and incident in ways that keeps alive the sensual serendipities of language. This is not a question of being for or against theory, but rather of being suspicious of orthodoxies that concede, in advance, that what passes for theory must be signaled by a narrowing of diction, sentence rhythms, and sensual awareness. I'm in favor of surprise.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.”
“The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.”

Source : "The excellent becomes the permanent".
“May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.”
“At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.”

Source : Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.31, Northwestern University Press
“Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.”
“Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.”
“I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.”

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