"The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. Africa should say: 'thank you very much but we need this money to meet the needs of children who are dying right now so we will put the debt servicing payments into urgent social investment in health, education, drinking water, control of AIDS and other needs.'"

-- Jeffrey Sachs

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“My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.”
“You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.”
“Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.”
“You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.”
“I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.”

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