"On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss..."

-- Rob Brezsny

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“I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.”
“As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.”
“I see is that there are many people who destroy their marriages because of one-night stands with someone else. And as the French say, "C'est ne pas grave." It's not something easy to swallow, but at the same time, it does not justify you to end a long-lasting relationship because something happened.”
“Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
“When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many of the patterns that we unconsciously believe to be true. There is not simply the addition of new metaphors and images, but the metaphors and images themselves flow out of a new consciousness inspired by a new awareness of the cosmos.”
“But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right They are raised on high to the velvet sky Bringing light to the darkness of night”

Source : Brian Jacques (2007). “High Rhulain”, p.263, Penguin
“If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. ... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.”
“What you collect says so much about who you are,”

Source : "Meet Ben Silbermann, The Brilliant Young Co-Founder Of Pinterest" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. March 13, 2012.

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