"Books were my pass to personal freedom."

-- Oprah Winfrey

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“But it is clear to me that our survivalâ€”both yours and mineâ€”will be dictated by how well you and I can work together.â€ â€œSo weâ€™re screwed?”

Source : Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.199, Penguin
“If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years”
“And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2010). “SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.31, Harper Collins
“Let them hate me, so long as they fear me!”

Source : "Fictional character: Caligula". "Caligula", 1979.
“In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.”
“The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must understand the relationship of enslaved people to Africa, to historical trauma, and their central role in food production. Their voice is the most poignant, expressive voice in Southern cuisine.”
“Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.”
“Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.”

Source : Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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