"At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice."

-- James Gleick

#Choices Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Information Quotes

“Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.”
“If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.46, Hachette UK
“From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.”
“Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.”
“The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.”

Source : Felix Adler's Founding Address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, aeu.org. May 15, 1876.
“Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.”

Source : "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.
“We have way better ***** flags than THAT one.”
“If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.”

Source : Donna Jo Napoli (2012). “Bound”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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