"As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars."

-- James Gleick

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“Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”
“Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!”
“I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.”
“People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.”

Source : Frank Schaeffer (2008). “Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back”, p.5, Da Capo Press
“We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.”
“I'd really like to have my own style of game and be known as Jason Spezza, not a Mario Lemieux or Wayne Gretzky 'clone.'”
“Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so.”

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