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1 " It wasn’t good to mess around with knees. Knees were stupid. Like a ball and two sticks held together with rubber bands. It took way less torque than most people thought to screw up a knee. "
― Rob Hart , The Warehouse
2 " That’s the thing about freedom. It’s yours until you give it up. "
3 " I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process. —U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, 1891 "
4 " Jackpot! I’m not the kind of guy who needs fancy things. I don’t need some desk that changes heights and makes my coffee and tells me I look nice. All I need is a phone, a computer, a pad, a pen, and a place to sit. End of list. "
5 " Дело в том, что работу надо заслужить. Работа - не то, что вам дают просто так. Таков американский девиз: стремись к величию сам, а не кричи о том, что у кого-то что-то есть. "
6 " Remember, freedom is yours until you give it up, "
7 " Can you not appreciate the peril of making me angrier than I already am? "
8 " Gibson paused. Turned to her. Gave her another look, up and down. “When elephant trainers catch a baby elephant in the wild, they tie it to a tree. That baby elephant fights and thrashes to break free, but it’s not strong enough. Within a couple of days, it gives up. So even as the elephant gets bigger, it doesn’t believe it can break the rope. And then you get a full-grown elephant tied to a tree with a piece of rope it could snap with a simple swing of its leg. It’s called learned helplessness. Everything here is built on people who don’t think the rope will break. Which means the most dangerous thing in the world for my business model is someone who recognizes how fragile the rope really is. "
9 " The balloon burst, everything about him, everything inside just spilling to the floor in one slippery mess. So he turned around and left, went back to Oak, went to his room, fell onto his futon, and stared up at the ceiling. And he thought about the other thing Zinnia had said. The thing about freedom. "
