"If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent."

-- Gus Van Sant

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“You get a lot of mileage from understanding what your voice is. When you have a strong idea and you know exactly what you're doing, it becomes hard for people to throw up resistance. It becomes much easier to work with you.”

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“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”

Source : John von Neumann's remarks as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (1947) as quoted in "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945-1947" by Franz L. Alt, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 7, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery (p. 694), July 1972.
“I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.”
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
“Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.”
“Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.”
“You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world.”
“Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'Ãªtre of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.”

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