"But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good."

-- William Butler Yeats

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“When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.”
“My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.”
“The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.”

Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
“But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.”
“I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.”
“When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.”

Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.131, Penguin
“Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.”

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