"Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling"

-- Miguel de Unamuno

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“True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.”
“It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.”
“Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.”
“I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation.”

Source : Television interview clip, profiles.nlm.nih.gov. 1980.
“Donâ€™t read Variety. Donâ€™t listen to gossip. Donâ€™t live in L.A., and write.”
“For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.”

Source : "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 1), 1688.
“I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.”

Source : "N.F.L. Prospect Michael Sam Proudly Says What Teammates Knew: He’s Gay" By John Branch, www.nytimes.com. February 9, 2014.
“The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.”

Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.66, Hachette UK

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