"What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?"

-- Roman Jakobson

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“I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left...”
“People who have left the group talk about how a religious inspiration took them to ISIS. It was their feeling of being marginalized as Muslims in the society where they were living, and then buying into the promise of a caliphate and of a Muslim land that is governed as in the time of the prophet. I have yet to meet anybody, or speak to anybody, who was not religiously motivated at some level.”
“Reading is important.”
“I wanna be a nice guy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.”

Source : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.280, Macmillan
“Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.”
“Never argue, repeat your assertion.”
“Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.”

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