"We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some new historical order will emerge. We cannot be sure what that order will be. Concretely, we may symbolize the first bifurcation as the effect of the world revolution of 1968 which continued up to and including the so-called collapse of the communisms in 1989, the social bifurcation."

-- Immanuel Wallerstein

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“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity”
“When I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be.”
“We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.”
“But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.”

Source : Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster
“We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.”
“Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.”
“I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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