"The world is full of assholes. What are you doing to make sure you're not one of them?"

-- A.S. King

“I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.”
“The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.”
“I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.”
“I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.”

Source : "Austin Butler, ‘Carrie Diaries’ Star: ‘I Was Rebellious And A Mess Of A Person’" by Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.
“Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.”

Source : Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane (2012). “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization”, p.9, Anchor
“For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on.”
“Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.”
“It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.”

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