"The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy."

-- Akbar Ganji

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“The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.”
“But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.”

Source : Bill Simmons (2009). “The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy”, p.44, ESPN
“The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.”
“I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.”
“I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.”

Source : William Boyd (2009). “Restless”, p.278, A&C Black
“I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.”

Source : "Fictional character: Thomas More". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.
“Perhaps the couple got married at 25 and now they're 45 and this is an option. And if a couple is still together, or perhaps finds its way back together, I like to say that it's forever. They belong together, it's a good fit, it's the right pairing. It almost gives me goose bumps.”
“Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.”

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