"It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm."

-- Charles Jencks

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“For me, 9/11, it was my last year in college and I didn't know anything about Al Qaeda, I didn't know anything about bin Laden, I had no idea. I think probably after a few years when I started seeing how the country and the policy was shifting due to terrorism, I wanted to know: Why are these people terrorizing us, and who are they?”
“Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.”
“In the 1920's it was legs. My God, women hadn't shown their legs for 2000 years.”
“You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2009). “The Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One”, p.71, Hachette UK
“Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.”
“Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.”
“Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki.”
“People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.”

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