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“In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.”
Source : "Why Government 'Care' Will Never, Ever Work". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. October 26, 2013. 
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“No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,”
Source : "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2014.
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“You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.”
Source : Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.12, Harper Collins
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“I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.”
Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
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“In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.”
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“Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand certain eras of history without knowing what these people believed in.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.”
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“I really try to be aware of the purpose of each song. There are songs on my record that I want people to have sex to, and songs people can listen to when they're pissed off,”
