"To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world."

-- Joshua Foer

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“See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.”
“We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.”
“Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military.”

Source : "Obama and the Legacy of Camelot" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.
“Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.”
“We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.”
“Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.”
“The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.”

Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.”

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