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“Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.”
Source : Thorstein Veblen (1994). “Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America”, p.38, Transaction Publishers
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“Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.”
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“We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.”
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“I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.”
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“I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!”
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“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.”
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“The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life,”
Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.77, Metropolitan Books
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“I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.”
