"You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.”

Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
“A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.”
“I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.”

Source : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.
“Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.”
“I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.”

Source : Lynne Rae Perkins (2006). “Criss Cross”
“They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.”
“A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.”
“Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.”

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