"I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations."

-- Gustav Heinemann

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“I think most entrepreneurs would refer to themselves as "accidental". No one looks for stress and pain. You stumble on to it. Also, no one looks for pots of gold, it just happens.”
“In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. Sheâ€™d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athenaâ€™s, which had led to Mount Olympusâ€™s first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.”
“I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.”
“The rules of the track work well for life. Roller derby is life in a tiny circle. You can only go forward, even if you find yourself turned around, facing the wrong way. There's speed, unpredictability, and danger. You can't be sure what's going to happen, you don't always know when you'll stop, and it appears most people are out to get you. You will fall. You will get hurt. But you will get up again.”

Source : Pamela Ribon (2010). “Going in Circles”, p.309, Simon and Schuster
“Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.”
“When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.”

Source : "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 28), 1982.
“Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in menâ€™s opinions.”

Source : Laura Cereta (2007). “Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist”, p.40, University of Chicago Press
“I had brief glimpses of emotional catharsis while writing. I remember reading something Philip Roth wrote about how he writes every single day, but it's almost as if he has amnesia every morning - he has almost zero confidence that anything will come but he just sits down and plugs away. And at the end of the day it feels like a miracle: "How did I do that?" I had a similar experience where it was just about putting in the hours and being present.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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