"We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult to give them up....Because they were made at a time of life when we were utterly dependent on them, the love attachments of infancy have inordinate power over us, more than any other emotional investment."

-- Louise J. Kaplan

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“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazi-ism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”
“Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”
“Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqueÂ . Truth is too simple; it must always be arrived at in a complicated manner.”
“Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.”
“The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.”
“In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.”
“Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.”
“Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.”

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