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“Know what you want, then know what you’re willing to give up to get it. That’s the recipe for the best possible life.”
― Yesterday's Gone: Season Three
― Yesterday's Gone: Season Three
“All humans were capable of atrocity. It was simply a matter of falling into a sequence of events that would drive them from timidity to terror. When violent instincts weren’t properly channeled, they easily erupt. Most violence was the result of a mind fooling itself into believing internal pain came from something, or someone, else — a someone or something that deserved to be punished. And typically these people were able to cast anyone into the role of that someone who deserved their wrath.”
― Yesterday's Gone: Season Three
― Yesterday's Gone: Season Three
“the more people get, the more they want. And the less happy they are with what they already have.”
― Yesterday's Gone: Season One
― Yesterday's Gone: Season One
“Moore's Law states that the number of transistors you can place on an integrated circuit doubles every two years or so, each time at a reduced cost. And so far this has held true, for more than 50 years. This means the power of everything is exponentially climbing: processing speed, memory capacity, the number of pixels in your Canon.”
― Yesterday's Gone: Season One
― Yesterday's Gone: Season One
“On the days that feel dark and endless, I make myself a simple promise: I’ll get out of bed in the morning. Then I’ll head up the hill to class. If I put one foot in front of the other, day by day, I’ll move closer to the light at the end of all this struggle.”
― Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
― Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
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