"What I learned from my father is to think big."

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Eike Batista

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“The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.”
“Loving own country is to love peace”
“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.61, Penguin
“In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.”

Source : "John Coltrane". Book by Bill Cole, 1976.
“Some stories, sheâ€™d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.”
“Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.”
“Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.”

Source : Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.116, Vintage
“For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.”

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