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“CNN and Fox News Channel first bootstrapped into media success by providing lower-cost news.”

— Michael Wolff, Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media In the Digital Age

“Belief is the death of intelligence.”

— Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

“I would walk through campus and overhear conversations — someone talking about splitting up with her boyfriend, someone talking about a bad grade he got on a test, someone talking about his sprained ankle — and would feel rage. You stupid, petty, selfish, self-absorbed people, I wanted to say. You h…”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel

“The person I am will always be the person I am, I realize. The context may have changed… But fundamentally, I'm the same person.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel

“Children are a kind of cartography, and all one has to do is obey the map they present to you on the day they are born.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel

“Since then, he has tried to tell Willem more things. But there are so many topics that he has never discussed with anyone since Ana, now twenty-five years ago, that he finds he literally doesn't have the language to do so. His past, his fears, what was done to him, what he has done to himself — they…”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel

“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel

“How might things have been different if he spoke only one sentence?”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“When did pursuing your ambitions cross the line from brave into foolhardy? How did you know when to stop?”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel

“But somewhere inside you, whether you were making out with someone in a bar or having dinner with your friends, was always your canvas, its shapes and possibilities floating embryonically behind your pupils. There was a period — or at least you hoped there was — with every painting or project when t…”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel

“New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel

“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.”

— Barack Obama, ala.org

“A lot of young people no longer see the trades and skilled manufacturing as a viable career. But I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree.”

— Barack Obama, insidehighered.com

“We need to invest in the skills and education of our people. Now, this year, we've broken through the stalemate between left and right by launching a national competition to improve our schools. And the idea here is simple: Instead of rewarding failure, we only reward success. Instead of funding the…”

— Barack Obama, Whitehouse.gov

“I try to avoid an either/or approach to solving the problems of this country. There are questions of individual responsibility and questions of societal responsibility to be dealt with. The best example is an education. I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computer…”

— Barack Obama, YouTube.co

“We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world. We know the work and the studying and the level of education that requires.”

— Barack Obama, Change We Can Believe In

“Nothing has a bigger impact than reading to children early in life. Obviously we all have a personal obligation to turn off the TV and read to our own children; but beyond that, participating in a literacy program, working with parents who themselves may have difficulty reading, helping their childr…”

— Barack Obama, Amazon.com

“Progress on this journey often comes in small increments. Sometimes two steps forward, one step back, compelled by the persistent effort of dedicated citizens. And then sometimes there are days like this, when that slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.”

— Barack Obama, Time.com

“I feel my slippery self eluding me, gliding into deeper and darker waters than I care to probe.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“In the case of a mirage, we can study heat, radiation, light, and even people's sense that they are perceiving water, but there is no water. Similarly, for Spinoza, there is no prophecy in the Hebrew Bible. It is also a phantom. The study of 'real' prophecy as he defines it is epistemology, the scie…”

— Rick Strassman , DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible