"The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests."

-- Charley Reese

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“For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.109, Tuttle Publishing
“I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.”
“Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.”
“The great financial capital is not in one country, it is transnational, that is why it answers to power elites and that is why when I talk about the imperial power of United States I am in no way referring to the American people, who are a noble people that have always been moved by humane concerns.”
“I'm not going to count the dollars before they've come in.”

Source : National Press Club address| Q & A session, jbh.ministers.treasury.gov.au. September 18, 2013 - September 21, 2015.
“Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.”
“My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.”

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