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“I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.”
Source : Source: www.believermag.com
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“The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.”
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“What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)”
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“I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.”
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“Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software”
Source : Capers Jones (2008). “Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality”, p.403, McGraw Hill Professional
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“Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead”
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“The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.”
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“I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.”
Source : "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010. 
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“My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.”
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“Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?”
