"Gods have bloody hands."

-- Janet Morris

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“The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.”
“I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.”
“I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.”
“I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups have fostered this quotient of identity, particularly teachers. Write a letter to your favorite author and so forth. When I was a child I never realized that there were authors behind books. Books were there as living things, with identities of their own.”
“The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that GuantÃ¡namo must be shut down. He wrote:â€œHusain Haqqani, a thoughtful Pakistani scholar now teaching at Boston University, remarked to me: 'When people like myself say American values must be emulated and America is a bastion of freedom, we get GuantÃ¡namo Bay thrown in our faces. When we talk about the America of Jefferson and Hamilton, people back home say to us: 'That is not the America we are dealing with. We are dealing with the America of imprisonment without trial.'”
“The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.”

Source : "US teenager faces jail for film piracy". www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2005.
“The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.”

Source : N.K. Rutter, Thucydides (1996). “History of the Peloponnesian War: A Companion”, Bristol Classical Press
“The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.”

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