"The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound."

-- William Finnegan

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“But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.”
“It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.”
“In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.”
“To know God and to find one's full satisfaction in that knowledge is the ultimate goal of Christian experience. The Lord's greatest delight comes when His people discover the ultimate value lies in the knowledge of God. Nothing in the material world can complete with the delights that are present in His Person.”
“You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.”
“I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.”
“Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.”

Source : "Writings on Physics and Philosophy" by Wolfgang Pauli, (p. 142), 1994.

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