"We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists"

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Performance should be made square with promise.”
“I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.”
“Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.”

Source : "The voices of China's workers". TED conference, www.ted.com. June 2012.
“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”
“I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.”
“I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.”
“For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancÃ©e ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant colours. Upon his engagement to Johanne Osthof of Brunswick; they married 9 Oct 1805.”
“Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.184, Macmillan

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