"Driven by a wish to save TomÃ¡s from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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“Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.”
“The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given to the obligations of relationships and unique circumstances.”

Source : Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner (2011). “Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.”
“I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM was talking to some other guy about Nazis, UFOs, the Kennedy Assassination, time travel, and George Bush, and how it all relates to OneWorldGovernment. This, of course, made me think about barbell training.”
“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”
“But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.”
“My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.”
“Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.”

Source : "Senate to take up softened campaign finance reform" by Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. October 12, 1999.

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