"Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse."

-- Bell Hooks

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“It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.”

Source : Pierre Bonnard, Jörg Zutter, Gloria Lynn Groom, National Gallery of Australia (2003). “Pierre Bonnard: observing nature”, Natl Gallery of Australia
“When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.”
“You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.”
“I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.”
“The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.”
“Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.”
“But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.”
“When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.”

Source : "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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