"Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems."

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The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

— Theodore Zeldin