"The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds."

-- Ludwig von Bertalanffy

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“In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature...”

Source : James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”
“The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.”
“You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that's how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really like doing, you find places. You find diners and Laundromats. You find beaches. You find a junk car and drive it for a month, then lave it beside the road. You find someone to fall in love with you. You make it all up as you go. Or, you know, maybe it makes you up.”

Source : Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler (2007). “Dream Factory”, p.66, Penguin
“I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.”
“It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.”
“He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin
“The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.”
“When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.”

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