"There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often assume that's because technology is not good enough, or there's no money being invested, or it's just not ready yet. It's none of that. It's actually a system of government and corporate behavior that work in collusion and lock step with one another to deflect any momentum toward true alternative energies."

-- Josh Tickell

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“When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours to fall asleep, and then when she woke up she would feel another onrush of agitated happiness, which was a lot like panic. She wished she could grab the happiness and mash it into a ball and hoard it and gloat over it, but she couldn't. It just ran around all over the place, disrupting everything.”

Source : Mary Gaitskill (2012). “Because They Wanted To: Stories”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
“I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.”
“My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.”
“The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.”

Source : Hippolyte Taine (1908). “Life and Letters of H. Taine: 1870-1892”
“What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.”

Source : Ann Beattie (2011). “Burning House”, p.23, Vintage
“The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.”
“I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.”

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