"When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations."

-- Bruce Feiler

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“We've found that customers are very open. They'll tell you what's going on, what's working and what's not. They're looking for help.”
“All I could think about was, 'I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.'”
“Encourage your trillions of faithful little cells through joy, happiness and confidence. Thank them, talk to them, sing to them.”
“I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.”

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“But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.”
“[...] Ich bin kein anhÃ¤nger der Behauptung, daÃŸ Maschinen kreativ seien. Jederman, der dies sein sollte, muÃŸ jedoch beschreiben, woher die Intuition der Maschinen fÃ¼r eine Kreation kommt. Ich vermute, daÃŸ Zufallsgeneratoren dabei eine wichtige Rolle spielen mÃ¼ssen.”
“We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.”
“One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by means of impressions or knowledge, it will not prove the least bit useful. Therefore, separate yourself from the discrimination of figuring things out.”

Source : Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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