"Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump."

-- Michael Arrington

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“Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.”

Source : "Nicola Formichetti on His Latest Muse". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.elle.com. February 6, 2013.
“I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.”
“What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.”
“I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.”
“But my biggest passion is football.”
“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.”
“The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.”
“Your identity is being formed whether you understand it or not, whether you are cooperating or not. Something is being formed all the time, either through your response or your non-response. All your circumstances are to establish something. If you don't respond to them properly, then you establish something that you don't really want to be known for.”

Source : FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Feb 04, 2014

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