"I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money."

-- Andrew Tobias

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“Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.”

Source : "'Whether we are arguing about MPs' expenses or assisted suicide, we need to engage with the moral ideals underlying our political debates'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.
“In the end, living is defined by dying.”
“I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something with this!"”

Source : Source: blog.pshares.org
“A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hiddenâ€”but itâ€™s there. As weâ€™ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain”
“You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.”

Source : Tama J. Kieves (2003). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher
“I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.”
“The next time you lose heart and you canâ€™t bear to experience what youâ€™re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of sufferingâ€”yours, mine, and that of all living beings.”
“If you told me two years I would miss the greatest basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane, I'd say, 'You're crazy!'”

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