"When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet."

-- Damian Loeb

#Unique Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Lost Quotes

“Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.”
“Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.”

Source : "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.
“Everything which is human is alien to me.”
“Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.”

Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage
“I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball”
“Home is not fixed - the feeling of home changes as you change. There are places that used to feel like home that don't feel like home anymore. Like, I would go back to Rome to see my parents, and I would feel at home then. But if my parents were not in Rome, which is my city where I was born, I would not feel at home. It's connected to people. It's connected to a person I love.”
“It is always sort of unnerving to hear from people who've read my books. I'm not reading any of the reviews and most of my friends haven't read it - they bought it, which is all I frankly care about, but they haven't read it.”
“Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.”

Source : Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.134, Penguin

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