"What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!"

-- David Eagleman

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“Stun settings are for people who can't commit.”
“For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks - accidentally - and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you're alive.”
“I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.”
“Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive. And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.”

Source : "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.
“Kill me, Doug. Just kill me now. Put me out of my misery.â€ â€œChrist, Kincaid, what did you say to him?â€ murmured Doug. â€œWell,â€ I told Doug, â€œI ripped on his fans and on how long it takes for his books to come out.â€ Doug stared at me, his expectations exceeded. â€œThen I saidâ€”not knowing who he wasâ€”that Iâ€™d be Seth Mortensenâ€™s love slave in exchange for advanced copies of his books.”
“No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.”
“Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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