"The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons."

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Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital

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“Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking in all the data that's happening in the moment on the ice, and instantly generating constant predictions based on super-efficient mental models he's built in his head. Technology has to work more like Gretzky.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.”
“If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.”
“In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.”
“I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.”
“I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.”

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