"Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power."

-- Eric Metaxas

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“A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is like a monkey who can only climb down a tree. In fact neither the up monkey nor the down monkey is a viable creature. A real monkey must find food and escape his enemies and so must be able to incessantly climb up and down. A real mathematician must be able to generalise and specialise.”
“You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.”
“Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.”

Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton
“There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.”

Source : "David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream". Interview With Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2012.
“At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them.”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.142, Open Road Media
“If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.”
“Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.”

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