"Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better."

-- Harlan Ellison

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“Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.”
“Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.”

Source : 1966 'Office Friendships'.
“My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.”
“On April 1, 1998, I launched Webmaster-Resources.com, and I remember that date specifically because it was the date that the price of a two-year domain name registration dropped from $100 to $70, and considering I was funding this out of my allowance, that $30 made all the difference.”
“no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.193, Macmillan
“Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.”

Source : "Scourge and poet" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.
“It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.”

Source : "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.
“Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.”

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