"Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess."
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."
"If a story is in you, it has to come out."
"Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together."
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
"I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl."
"Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember."
"You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in..."
"Tasers are a one-size-fits-all paranormal butt-kicking option. Mine’s pink withrhinestones."
"Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother."
"Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me."
"A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it."
"We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind."
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
"The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish."
"I’m a little more reserved in person than people expect. But I warm up quickly, like leftovers. Meatloaf, anyone?"
"I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine."
"Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began."
"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."
"People don't care what I wear or don't wear, and even if I don't wear anything people will cover for me if they know that I care about them."
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