"Disrupt, and you will be saved."

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Source : "The Disruption Machine". www.newyorker.com. June 23, 2014.

Jill Lepore

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.”
“For any single thing you can do, there is one person who is best in the world. Usually it is Mike Caro.”
“Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.”
“Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.”

Source : "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.
“Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.”
“Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.”
“The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.”

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