"I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

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“I had a great time doing Vegas. It's just that it takes a lot of time.”
“All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.”
“Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?”
“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
“Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.”

Source : "'We Couldn't Just Sit Back and Do Nothing'". Interview with Michael Sauga,Anne Seith, www.spiegel.de. October 29, 2012.
“All the public systems â€“ administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.”
“As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise â€” by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?”
“I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.”

Source : Geneen Roth (2010). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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