"My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from."

-- Michael Moritz

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“Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.”
“Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.”

Source : Bernard Malamud (1979). “Dubin's Lives”, Penguin Books
“I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that never quail, But look you through, and through, and through, With love unspeakable and true.”
“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”
“Our decisions need not be seen as resting on procedures that are merely instrumental in making judgments that are reliably truth-tracking. The procedures might be more directly related than that to truths about what is right or good, or about what we ought to do, or to principles that tell us what is true about these matters. And I have no metaphysical theory about the truth-conditions of such truths, except to say that as objective truths, they must be independent of the attitudes, decisions or actions that they are supposed to justify or for which they are to offer reasons.”
“I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.”
“Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.”

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