"Nature rarely does anything mathematically perfect, and naturalism results from imperfections and deviations."

-- Margaret Wertheim

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“If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.”
“Counting time is not as important as making time count.”
“Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.”
“I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.”
“He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.48, Yearling
“There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.”
“For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.”
“Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.”

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