"For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis."

-- Evgeny Morozov

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“Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”
“As long as I stay honest with myself and just do the work that I am willing to do, and have been willing to do and am doing,”
“I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.”
“I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.457, Simon and Schuster
“In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language . I have expressed my opinion concerning a number of English writers; it is very possible that I may be mistaken, that my admiration and my censure may be equally misplaced, and that my conclusions may appear impertinent and ridiculous on the other side of the Channel.”
“Integral reality is the worldâ€™s transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.”
“The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.”
“If you're unhappy, change something.”

Source : Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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