"What is a society without a heroic dimension?"

-- Jean Baudrillard

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“[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym”
“Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.”
“I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet.”
“Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.”
“From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.”

Source : "Buffett lunch: $650,000 to eat with legendary investor" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.
“Business really has to work its way back. It has to re-earn the trust of its broad sets of constituents.”
“A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.”
“I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or Dad, but right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening and I'm here.”

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