"The more you know about how things are the less you know about how things could be."

-- Horace Dediu

“Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.”
“He lifed his head and looked down at her seriously. "Could you," he began, then he had to clear his throat. "Could you learn to be fond of me?" he asked. "With enough time?" She looked at him in surprise. It was the first time in all their acquaintance that she'd heard him sound the least bit hesitant. "I don't need to learn anything," she said, before she thought better of it.”
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
“It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.”

Source : Rudolfo A. Anaya (1972). “Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel”, Tqs Publications
“I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.”
“You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!”
“When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.”
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

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