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I usually head up to the mountains or out into the desert. Somewhere nobody is. There I can dig deep and find the core that got me where I am today. It's sort of like my reset button.
-- Nathan Parsons

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The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.
-- Adam Rifkin

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We need to push the reset button on climate change.
-- Judith Curry

Source : "Does Obama’s UN carbon pledge threaten much more US economic pain?" by George Russell, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2015.

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“A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.”
“I'm in mourning for my life.”
“I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.”

Source : Rachel Corrie (2009). “Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company
“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mark Watney". "The Martian", www.imdb.com. 2015.
“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.”
“Nothing will motivate conservative evangelical Christians to vote Republican in the 2008 presidential election more than a Democratic nominee named Hillary Rodham Clinton - not even a run by the devil himself ... I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate. She has $300 million so far. But I hope she's the candidate. Because nothing will energize my [constituency] like Hillary Clinton. If Lucifer ran, he wouldn't.”
“The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will be monstrous unless it is seasoned with the salt of negri-tude, for it will be without the savor of humanity.”

Source : Leopold Sedar Senghor (1965). “Prose and Poetry”
“Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.”
“In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.”

Source : "POLITICO interview: Gov. Fortuno". Interview with Michael Falcone and Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. May 22, 2009.
“Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.”