"Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you."

-- Gail Sheehy

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“The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one is dangerous and unreliable, while the other is relatively safe, directed, available.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.”
“Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death is considered loss and life is considered gain. Thus, death is something that such a person does not care for, and he is contemptable. Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this.”

Source : Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.31, Shambhala Publications
“If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.”
“An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.”
“Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.”
“Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.”

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