"I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful."

-- Caroline B. Cooney

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“Different presidents are different as far as their public persona vs. their persona meeting with advisers. For example, George Bush was pretty much the same in person as when he was speaking publicly. I think Donald Trump has a stage persona and he also has a temperament when meeting with his advisers. Now, the positions are the same, but the attitude is a little bit different.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.”
“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.”

Source : Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue”, p.1, Routledge
“In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.”
“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”

Source : The Phantom Tollbooth (p. 247)
“What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the creation and execution of any strategy.”

Source : Walter Kiechel (2013). “Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World”, p.13, Harvard Business Press
“We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic.”
“That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.”

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