"For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map."

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Ken Jennings

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“This is what happens with a breakthrough.Â The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken.Â Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.”

Source : Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.17, Anchor
“You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.”
“I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I don't see it meaning, 'I'm going to heaven after I die.' Before modern evangelicalism nobody accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, or walked down an aisle, or said the sinner's prayer.”
“I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.”
“The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.”

Source : Martin Van Creveld (2010). “Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
“Happy Birthday." Adrian came to a sudden halt. The words were soft and small, spoken tentatively, but easily discerned by vampire ears. Slowly, he turned around and found Jill Mastrano standing shyly before him.”
“When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.”

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