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“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”
Source : Joseph Brodsky's opening remarks as United States Poet Laureate, October 1991.
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“I believe that I am a child of God, endowed with a divine birthright. I believe that there is something of divinity within me and within each of you. I believe that we have a godly inheritance and that it is our responsibility, our obligation, and our opportunity to cultivate and nurture the very best of these qualities within us.”
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“[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.”
Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
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“Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.”
Source : "Sam Raimi Interviewed - SPIDER-MAN 3" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 22, 2007. 
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“Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis.”
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“Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is no global lender of last resort, no global safety net, and of course, no global democracy. In other words, global markets suffer from weak governance, and are therefore prone to instability, inefficiency, and weak popular legitimacy.”
Source : Dani Rodrik (2012). “The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist”, p.13, OUP Oxford
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“He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.”
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“Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'”
