"God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation."

-- Dikembe Mutombo

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“The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.”

Source : Benoit B. Mandelbrot (2013). “Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E”, p.16, Springer Science & Business Media
“Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All blues singers are great liars.”
“Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.”
“Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.73, 谷月社
“The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.”
“War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.”
“The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.”

Source : "The American Boy". www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2013.

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