"Even God cannot make two times two not make four."

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Source : "A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Aside". Book by Delbert D. Thiessen, p. 18, 1998.

Hugo Grotius

#Two Quotes #Four Quotes

“The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most certainly always will have a suburban President. A President whose senses have been defined by the suburbs, where lakes and public baths mutate into back yards and freeways, where walking means driving, where talking means telephoning, where watching means TV, and where living means real, imitation life.”
“I remember going into a raggedy studio, still with my work uniform on. At the time, I was driving money trucks for Wells Fargo, so I had my gun and hat, which weighed me down in the heat. It was 97 degrees here in New York, and they had to turn the air conditioner off because it was too loud. So, I say, "Damn, it's hot in here!" That's how we came up with the song, "Damn, It's Hot." It was from our soul. We just got together, sang and made our own lyrics.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Always take much less than you think you'll need.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things”
“We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.”
“Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.”
“Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the open, till the sky, moving as you dance, seems to cleave and let you through.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”
“I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.”

Source : "Rian Johnson on his writing process and the appeal of alternate-history films". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2012.

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