"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."

-- Isaac Asimov

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“I have the talent and the tools to win.”
“The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.”
“One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art.”
“I like it when you're under the ocean, and all you can feel is calm”
“But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.”

Source : Pope Pius X's Encyclical letter "Pascendi dominici gregis", w2.vatican.va. September 8,1907.
“When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.”
“The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.”

Source : "Staking Out The Globe" by David M. Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. February 21, 1988.
“It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.”

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