"In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped."

-- Carl Sagan

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“Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.”
“In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.”

Source : "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.
“Buy American Doesnâ€™t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA”
“Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth”

Source : Simon Bolivar's statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words; quoted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The General in His Labyrinth" (p. 267), 1990.
“After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.”
“I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.”
“My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives.”
“In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.”

Source : John Chancellor (1995). “The New News Business: A Guide to Writing and Reporting”, Harper Perennial

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