"On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center."

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Source : "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

Yochai Benkler

#New York Quotes #Children Quotes #World Quotes

“Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.”
“And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.”
“I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible in school by my son, I was fired from my job as a supervisor in the city public welfare department. And I was unable to find another one. So my income was completely cut off.”
“Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.”
“I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?”
“The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer”
“Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.”

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