"and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."

-- James Joyce

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“Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.”

Source : Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity”, p.116, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.”

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.17, Vintage
“When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.”
“To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.”
“We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.”

Source : "Pol Pot remembered" by Elizabeth Becker, news.bbc.co.uk. April 20, 1998.
“Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.”
“Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that are devoted to this and staffed by incredibly talented people who have skills that could be put to socially beneficial projects but who are now trying to find out how to make you click and how to maximize your time on a certain site, or encourage teenagers to "friend" more products and constantly engage with them.”
“I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.”

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