"You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before."

-- Maureen Johnson

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“If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.”
“Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.”

Source : György Konrád (1995). “The Melancholy of Rebirth: Essays from Post-communist Central Europe, 1989-1994”, Harcourt
“I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.”
“The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.”
“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”
“For many years, Sierra had compared the Holy Spirit to the wind, as it said the the Bible, noting that it was always there, no matter how faint the breeze. The wind went where it wanted to go, and its path was easy to detect because it moved objects and people. But no one had ever seen the wind.”
“I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.”
“In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.”

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