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“The world needs role models, instead of critics.”
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“Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.”
Source : Stacy Aumonier (1921). “The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories”
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“But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.”
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“Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.”
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“it's about a love song to myself, and a love song to the universe, kind of like the way that Song of Solomon consists of love songs to God or like the way Sufi poems are erotic love songs to God, I kind of wanted something like that. Because I was getting to know myself more deeply at this point. I've always been on this track where I wanted to be enlightened.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“We have way too many lawyers, the price for them has plummeted and you will have a miserable and unsatisfying life. Unless you get into Harvard Law. You could be in a yurt on the Mongolian Plateau and they'll say, "Oh you must be smart. You went to Harvard Law."”
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“You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.”
Source : "The funny side of the street". Interview with Rick Lyman, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002. 
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“If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.”
Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.186, Lulu.com
