"Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis."

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Source : "Inside the Crisis" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2009.

Lawrence Summers

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“My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling.”
“Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.”
“I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.”

Source : "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". Interview with W.I. Scobie, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1974.
“I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat”
“I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.”
“Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back”

Source : "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.
“The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.”
“I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.”

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