"When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Randomness Quotes #Dangerous Quotes #Stuck Quotes

“One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when I listened to fairy stories and imagined what they looked like and what those worlds were like.”
“The end is where we start from.”
“She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return home once more, to the wild forest and the land of mystic tales and ancient spirits whence he had taken her. That was the place of her heart, and if he loved her, he must let her go.”
“But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.”
“If you are to do justice to [the great roles], you must fly up to them - rather than dragging them down to you - by expanding your range of knowledge and strengthening your imagination. Your imagination must become as real to you as your memories and feelings. What you take into yourself about psychology, politics, sociology, history and so on, will allow you to reach places in yourself you didn't know existed. No line, no image, no thought can be left general. Each must be specific and personal. Your work is not complete until this is so.”
“It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.”
“So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.”
“It is people who are important, not the masses.”

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