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		Well, the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines. As the servants of the Machine are becoming a privileged class, the Machines are going to be enormously more powerful. What's their next move?
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. R. R. Tolkien 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M. H. Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. D. Salinger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fran Kranz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Pelosi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Frances Beinecke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Winslet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Venus Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Barenboim 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nate Silver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vijay Kumar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ice T