"The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history."

-- Niall Ferguson

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“I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.”
“Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.”
“...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know”
“Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.”
“Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.”
“In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.”

Source : Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.53, Stanford University Press
“I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.”

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