"An option hides where we don't want it to hide."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.”
“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
“I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.”

Source : "Dominic Monaghan on working with Wild Things' "beautiful, gentle spiders"". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2013.
“I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.”
“She was a genius, my mother.”
“You're pregnant? Congratulations, the world needs another mindless, semiliterate consumer.”
“I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”
“A hunter in love with his prey.”

Source : Sophie Jordan (2011). “Firelight”, p.171, Oxford University Press - Children

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