"Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate."

-- Barbara Tuchman

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“Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.”
“Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.”

Source : R. K. Narayan (2009). “Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher”, p.251, Everyman's Library
“Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics
“Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.”
“I think every athlete thatâ€™s just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.”
“People recite lines to me all the time, anywhere I get recognized.”

Source : "South Florida's Steven Bauer returns to TV". Interview with Johnny Diaz, www.sun-sentinel.com. June 20, 2013.
“Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad use and abuse made of those terms. I consider myself a photographer, nothing more. If my photographs differ from that which is usually done in this field, it is precisely because I try to produce not art but honest photographs, without distortions or manipulations.”

Source : Tina Modotti, Robert Miller, Spencer Throckmorton, Robert Miller Gallery (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Tina Modotti: photographs”
“When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.”

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