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		I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Teju Cole 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren Weaver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Kingsolver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Illeana Douglas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zach Roerig 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rainbow Rowell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gail Simmons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hassan Nasrallah 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Shakespeare 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My advice ... is that in selecting fish, perhaps at this juncture, it would be wise to select freshwater fish and other chilled fish from other parts of the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Margaret Chan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characteristic amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in specific historical circumstances, spring narratives… The photograph… is only the most peremptory of a huge modern accumulation of documentary evidence… which simultaneously records a certain apparent continuity and emphasizes its loss from memory. Out of this estrangement comes a conception of personhood, identity… which, because it cannot be “remembered”, must be narrated. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Benedict Anderson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the one is the agreement of the several parts of a theological proposition; the object of the other is moral beauty, the intrinsic loveliness of God and Divine things. The sinner sees and hates; the saint sees and loves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gardiner Spring 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Teju Cole