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“I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.”
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“I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.”
Source : "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
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“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
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“Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.”
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“And at the start of every new day, I still believed I could choose my own beginning, one that was scrubbed clean of everything past”
Source : Nami Mun (2008). “Miles from Nowhere”, p.24, Penguin
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“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.”
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“It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music.”
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“'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.”