"Life is tough; thank God there's design."

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Paola Antonelli

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“But if that's not enough, then consider this: if the Night's Watch are truly brothers, then Lord Commander Mormont was our father. He lived and died for the Watch and he was betrayed by his own men, stabbed in the back by cowards. He deserved far better.”
“Paul Otrembaâ€™s remarkable first book,Â The Currency,Â is an intriguing foray into lyricÂ epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden nature ofÂ knowledge and experience. These are deeply felt, deeply meditated poems guided by a sensibilityÂ highly attenuated to the physical world. In their openness to friendship and love and in theirÂ fearless directness, they remind me of the work of Larry Levis and Jon Anderson. Like LevisÂ and Anderson, Otremba promises to be an influential and important voice for his generation.”
“When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side”
“Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.103, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]”
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
“The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.”
“A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 322), 2004.

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