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“I made myself a rule: write out of love. And when you love somebody, you have to tell the truth about who they are - not the cute "truth" in your head of who they are, the one where you did everything right and they did everything wrong.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.”
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“Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.”
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“I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my audience, but I am not writing for them. I have something to tell them, but the audience must also put a certain effort into it. But I never wrote for an audience and never will write for one, because you have to give the listener something and he has to make an effort in order to understand certain things.”
Source : "Composer Henryk - Mikolaj Górecki". Interview with Bruce Duffie, www.bruceduffie.com. 
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“Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.”
Source : Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster
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“I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.”
Source : William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1913). “Political speeches. Speeches on foreign lands. Educational and religiouus speeches. Miscellaneous speeches”
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“Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?”
