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Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.
Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.
General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.
When you give me something that I love, then I spend a long time drilling down on it and figuring out what it is I love about it.
I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around.
Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.
There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.
A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.
We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones.
Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!
The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!
If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!
In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!
Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.
When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.
Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!
How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!
If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.
In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!
Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!
Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!
The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!
The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!
Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!
The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!
Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!
he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.
Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye.
There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.
Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.
When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.
I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.
It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.