"You taught me, baby, how the few who win, acquire what their hearts' desire. It ain't practice, it ain't skill. They'll help, but not as much as wanting will." –from the Broadway production Chess
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
–T.S.Eliot, The Waste Land
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." –Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
"In the book that is my memory, on the first page of that chapter that is the day I met you, appear the words 'Here begins a new life' ”. –Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova
"We must rise above the milieu into which we were born. Sometimes, doing that requires more strength than we can summon at that moment. Even so, we must try to remember that becoming a better person is our ultimate task. It is a task we may choose to put off today, to forget about tomorrow, but it is a task that will always await us and which circumstance will one day force us to confront." –VirtualWayne
"We aren’t supposed to understand all of reality. Quantum physics tells us there are some things in our reality that are unknowable. They’re unknowable not because we don’t have the right instruments or because our knowledge of our Universe is limited. Some things are unknowable in principle. They’re unknowable because the Universe won’t let us have certain kinds of information. They’re unknowable because that is the way our Universe is structured. Some kinds of knowledge, some kinds of information, really are, and always will be, beyond our grasp." –VirtualWayne
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