"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."

-- Ralph Ellison

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“I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.”
“The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.”
“We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.”
“Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.”
“In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.”

Source : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.191, Transaction Publishers
“If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.”

Source : Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in "The Development of Spatial Cognition" by Robert Cohen, 1985.
“Can one alter oneÂ´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.”
“As long as I'm not living out of a suitcase, I'm happy.”

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