"I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values."

-- Michael Sandel

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“The greatest mistake marketers make is trying to create demand.”
“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”

Source : "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind". Book by Huangbo and John Blofeld, p. 79, 1958.
“If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.”
“Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.”
“I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.”

Source : "N.F.L. Prospect Michael Sam Proudly Says What Teammates Knew: He’s Gay" By John Branch, www.nytimes.com. February 9, 2014.
“Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.”
“The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.”

Source : Attributed to Locker's Greenwich Gallery article "Torrington" in Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan "The Life of Nelson, Volume 2: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain" (p. 52), 1897.
“Beyond the Einsteins and Darwins, most scientists don't have chroniclers. Einstein and Darwin were geniuses - that helps. Many scientists do amazing stuff, but it just disappears into footnotes and dusty medical journals. If I were masochistic enough, I could spend the rest of my life rescuing scientists. Most of them aren't natural self-promoters.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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