"The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him."

-- Ray Bradbury

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“Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.”
“In my dreams you are standing right beside me, two hearts finally colliding, then i wake up and realise, realise, this is real life”
“The reason I like incorporating the Yakuza into my movies - all their actions, everything they do, you can say 'It's ok because he's a Yakuza'. Changes happen very quickly in their world. If you were trying to make a movie about politicians, it would takes years and years for something to change; whereas for Yakuzas, it could only take one night and things can change dramatically.”
“Even if I'm not so into the specific celebrities who are sharing images of themselves looking "bad," I think it's an amazing contribution to the conversations about beauty that we have online.”
“It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely, merciful thing to think, 'Actually, there is no path I can take without having my heart broken, so why not get on with it and stop wanting these extra-special circumstances which stop me from doing something courageous?'”

Source : "The Questions that Have No Right to Go Away" By David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.
“What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing.”
“Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.”
“I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.”

Source : "Philly Mayor Michael Nutter Thinks Local At DNC". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 5, 2012.

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