"But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate."

-- Gerald Finzi

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“My godchild Zoe, age 6, suddenly said: "Can you describe what romance is?" I talked about wooing, and yearning, and she sighed and leaned back, "I think that love is my favorite thing in this whole world..." Me too, Zoe, me too.”
“Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.”
“Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.”
“It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.”

Source : Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“Perhaps Iâ€™m tired of waiting for something I may never find.”
“The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.”
“But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.”

Source : "Laureate and hardy". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2002.

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