"Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?"

-- Hector Hugh Munro

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“Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.”
“With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring back extinct animals in the lab. The problem really isn't scientific - it's cultural. We aren't yet able to coordinate ourselves as a global civilization to do something simple like bring food to a famine-stricken region. We can actually use current satellite technologies to predict where famine will strike next, but we can't get food there - usually for political reasons.”
“In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times.”
“My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricityâ€”it would be style...being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.”
“The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.”
“I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.”
“We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games. That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version.”
“You promised the moon, but I prefer Uranus.”

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