"I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting."

-- Boris Pasternak

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“Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.”
“The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.”
“Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.”
“The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater portion of our armed forces and our valuable material to be immobilized within the continental United States.”
“Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.”

Source : "Old stone face cracks" by Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.
“I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.”
“Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.”
“The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.”

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