"When you see something every day, it gets into your brain."

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Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

Elizabeth Neel

“There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.”
“If someone says you are not capable or can't have something, keep pushing because you can. And it's not because you're special, but it's because everyone possesses the ability to be awesome. The reason people say, 'No, you can't,' 'God doesn't want you to,' or they make laws is because they know that you have that in you. And they are scared to lose their superior standing.”
“Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.”

Source : Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.13, Duke University Press
“Alexander von Humboldtâ€™s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Personâ€™s stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.”
“You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.”
“The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.”
“I think that my emergence as a leader is closely related to the development of Taiwan's democracy. Taiwan's democracy was a gradual development. It was done from the bottom up. Therefore a lot of the more successful political leaders come from civil society, those that are closer to the grass-roots level of the public.”
“I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.”

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