"it's amazing what you can get used to."

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Source : "MI6 and ministers urged to use social networks" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.

Jeffrey Eugenides

“The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.”
“I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.”
“The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.”
“Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.”
“I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.”
“Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.”

Source : Ken Blanchard, Colleen Barrett (2013). “Learn How to Lead and Succeed (Collection)”, p.164, FT Press
“Early access is very valuable, there are a lot of consumers who would love to see something early.”

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