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“Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.”
Source : Cynthia Ozick (2011). “Fame & Folly: Essays”, p.217, Vintage
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“For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in office, he introduced legislation that reformed and over five years effectively dismantled the electoral system. So anything that passes for elections in Russia today has nothing to do with actual elections.”
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“The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.”
Source : "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007. 
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“It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavours when preparing foods. Â That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients”
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“We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.”
Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.308, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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“For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Einstein said if somebody time and again does something, or tries to do something, with the same negative results, and continues to insist on doing so, then he's a fool. This strategy carried out, applied by the United States in Colombia, has been a total failure.”
Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.
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“Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.”
