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“If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.”
Source : Jerry Weintraub (2010). “When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man”, p.6, Hachette UK
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“I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.”
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“We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.”
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“Go to the moon, that's my dream.”
Source : "Here's Why Investor Steve Jurvetson Saved Elon Musk's Space Dreams" by Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. September 14, 2012. 
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“Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.”
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“The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.”
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“Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.”
Source : George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.75, MIT Press
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“For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.”
