"You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book."

-- Michael Lewis

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“The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Convocation of the University of Manitoba, October 28, 1952, 1959.
“The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.”
“Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.”
“I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.”
“I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'”
“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.”

Source : Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete, vol. 2, n° 1, 1987.
“One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.”
“And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.”

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