"Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere."

-- Gian-Carlo Rota

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“If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.”
“When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".”

Source : Claire Wolfe (2007). “Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do til the Revolution”, p.207, Paladin Press
“I don't hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they'll say no, they don't want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says 'yes,' because that's indigenous to that country.”
“What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.”
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
“There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.”

Source : "Susan Minot's Torrid World of Individual Desire" by Will Blythe, www.elle.com. January 28, 2014.
“I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.”
“I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.”

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