"...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This balance, in the case of the United States would seem to me to have been surpassed when the American population reached, at a very maximum, two hundred million people, and perhaps a good deal less."

-- George F. Kennan

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“It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.”
“Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do.”
“Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and innocent. It's not hardcore stripping so much as letting your body tell a story; the women are playing characters and unfolding a complete narrative onstage, with beginning, middle, and end.”

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“I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.”
“I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.”
“There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.”
“Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.75, New York Review of Books
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