"Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment."

-- Samuel Beckett

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“If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.”
“It will feel boring when you're bingeing.”

Source : "'Transparent' creator: Streaming shows are 'inventing a new art form'". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. December 14, 2015.
“Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false.”
“I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.”
“And this movie [Real Steel] definitely looks like nothing else I've made, which was the point. I think also, Evangeline and Hugh are such a fantastic... Their chemistry is so genuine. And also it's a good balance to all those visual effects. It'll give you more of the tone.”
“William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: â€œYou know those poems you're writing? They're no good.â€”

Source : Eliot Weinberger (2007). “An Elemental Thing”, p.115, New Directions Publishing
“Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.”
“I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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