"There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again."

-- Laura Lippman

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“I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.”
“There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.”
“Drinking is not a spectator sport.”
“It's a great question about what is our mind. Undoubtedly a creation of our brain.”

Source : Gazeta Wyborcza Interview, December 24-26, 2011.
“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
“For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!”
“True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is really to help, that is true solidarity.”
“The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom - so far, that's doing fine too, virtually everything can be published. Although with some books that are too edgy politically, or are especially undesirable, the authors are already running into difficulties. Theaters that produce provocative plays, or clubs that host undesirable events often find themselves on the receiving end of fire safety inspections and fines.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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