"According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves."

-- Plato

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“I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.”
“One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1995). “Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems”, Wiley
“If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed.”
“Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated â€” as good rock â€™nâ€™ roll did â€” challenged me to do the same, and so, even when the content was antiwoman, antisexual, in a sense antiÂhuman, the form encouraged my struggle for liberation.”
“I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?”
“Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his society's manifold connections with the wider world, the fact that prosperity and security at home, for instance, often depend on extensive violence and exploitation abroad.”
“Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?”
“I feel young at heart, and I feel, like, you know, 40.”

Source : "Ivana Trump's Make-Under" by Phoebe Eaton, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2009.

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