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A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? ”
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another. ”
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps. ”
Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door. ”
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me. ”
Marriage is really an exciting adventure. ”
Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together. ”
Marriage is more complex than we think. ”
You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody. ”
I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately. ”