"Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect."

-- Daniel Keys Moran

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“Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?”
“I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.”
“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that peopleâ€™s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows whatâ€™s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
“Itâ€™s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. Itâ€™s like being in a trance - itâ€™s a fluid - and you almost donâ€™t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.”
“But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.”
“A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let me tell you something. There are no Baathists, no one believes this stuff, this is stuff you read in school because it's assigned to you. Maybe someone believed it, but no one really believes it." And I thought that was really interesting to hear, because the ideology of Baathism was presented so often to Americans as the core of what's wrong.”
“The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.”

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