"Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form."

-- Sinclair Lewis

“I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.”
“The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. Itâ€™s the biggest social injustice imaginable. What we are allowing to happen in this day and age, we are still allowing the color of a childâ€™s skin and the Zip code they live in to dictate their educational outcome, and therefore their life outcome. We are robbing them every single day of their futures. And everybody in this country should be infuriated by that.”
“The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.”
“Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.”
“But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.”

Source : Chad Harbach (2011). “The Art of Fielding: A Novel”, p.192, Hachette UK
“War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.”
“God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.”
“I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.”

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