"The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College."

-- Godfried Danneels

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“When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.”
“Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums -- movies, television series and books -- for sources of inspiration.”
“Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners...”
“Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .”
“I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.”
“They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest.”
“Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.”
“It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.”

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