"A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.”
“From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.”
“Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.”
“With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.”
“Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.”
“I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.”
“So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.”
“In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.”

Source : Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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