"The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts."

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Annie Dillard

“All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.”
“We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course.”
“In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.”
“I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.”
“The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.”
“Starting and growing a businessÂ is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.”

Source : YouTube Channel "RenewableEnergyZone"/"Interview With Elon Musk Tesla Motors", www.youtube.com. January 07, 2007.
“I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”

Source : "Goldstein: How Universities Killed Free Speech" by Lorrie Goldstein, torontosun.com. November 22, 2017.
“Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.”

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