"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization.”
“We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some new historical order will emerge. We cannot be sure what that order will be. Concretely, we may symbolize the first bifurcation as the effect of the world revolution of 1968 which continued up to and including the so-called collapse of the communisms in 1989, the social bifurcation.”
“My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the following from Thomas Jefferson: The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government. That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.”

Source : "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994.
“For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.”

Source : Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”
“No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.”
“My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.”
“Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.”

Source : "Fictional character: Todd Blackburn". "Black Hawk Down", www.imdb.com. December 18, 2001.

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