"A vast engine of wonderful delicacy and intricacy, a machine that is like the tools of the Titans put in your hands. This machinery, in its external fabric so massive and so exquisitely adjusted, and in its internal fabric making new categories of thought, new ways of thinking about life."

-- Charles Ferguson

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“Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue”

Source : "Be The Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience & Virtue". Book by Charles Saatchi, April 2, 2012.
“Life doesnâ€™t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesnâ€™t hurt.)”
“The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.”
“Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.”

Source : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.200
“I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good”
“Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.”
“Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.”

Source : Tim Wise (2013). “Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity”, p.117, City Lights Books
“All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.”

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