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Walter Isaacson

"The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,â€ he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence."

Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

Walter Isaacson

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“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”

Source : Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.29, Harper Collins
“Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard (since her definitive settling in India called '[The] Mother') and designed by architect Roger Anger. Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.”
“Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.”
“Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place.”

Source : "Fictional character: the Lost Prince". "Marianas Trench: Ever After", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in”
“So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.”
“My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?”
“I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.”

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