"We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe."

-- John D. Barrow

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“If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.”
“There's no downside to traveling the world and making money. I'm doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I'm not trying to lose it any time soon.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.”
“Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.”
“Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .”
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”

Source : "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, pp. 275-276, 1971.
“Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.”
“Self conquest is the greatest of victories.”

Source : Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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