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The best time to buy is when there is blood on the streets.

— Dr. Mark Mobius, Let's Make Money (2008)

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Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.

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‘General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.’ The words of Alexis de Tocqueville, an observer of the birth of modern democracy. Though general ideas allow human minds to make judgments quickly, they are necessarily incomplete. So de Tocqueville noted that an all-knowing mind—the mind of God, as he conceived it—would have no need for general ideas. It would understand every individual in detail and at a glance. Incomplete applications of law or justice would be impossible for such a mind.

— JC Denton, "Deus Ex: Invisible War"
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A lot of [Stephen Toulmin’s] argument is summed up in two of his aphorisms, which he admitted he exaggerated a bit for effect: ‘Every concept is an intellectual micro-institution’ (p. 166), consisting of the people who accept the concept, and the practices by which they use and transmit it; and conversely, ‘Institutions are macro-concepts’ (p. 353).

— Stephen Toulmin, via Cosma Shalizi
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He has won a lot of Canadian Awards which is like winning a lot of hugs from your Mom.

— Unknown, Vice
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This [“The Dark Knight”] was not a movie to make you believe a man could fly. This was a movie to make you believe a superhero could exist… less of a desire to experience the childlike glee and more a desire to legitimize our love of these fantastical creations by making them realistic.

— Carrie Lynn D. Reinhard, Flak Magazine: 13 Ways of Looking at a Dark Knight Part 2, 08.27.08
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I don’t have anything against autobiographies, so long as the people writing them have penises that are at least a foot long when they are erect.

— Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer's introduction to "The Savage Detectives"
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Ah well… after all, history only tastes bitter to those who expected it to be sugar coated.

— Chris Marker, "Sans Soleil" via Wolfgang Ball
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It’s now very common to hear people say, “I’m rather offended by that”, as if that gives them certain rights. It’s no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. “I’m offended by that.” Well, so fucking what?

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Player intention [is] the ability of the player to devise personally meaningful goals, [and] to formulate and execute plans to achieve those goals using the information and resources provided by the game.

— Doug Church, via Warren Spector
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