"A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man."

-- Edwin Forrest

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“The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.”
“The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.”

Source : "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.
“Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.”
“I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.”
“If youd asked me after Band of Brothers what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined Southland.”
“Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.”
“I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.”
“The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.”

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