"Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go."

-- Pauline Kael

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“It takes a child to say the unsayable.”
“While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.”

Source : "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. July 21, 2003.
“I think death is not simply the last few moments of life, death is something that runs throughout the whole of life. Each of our moments is not only the possibility of affirmation, but it's also we're saying farewell at each moment to something.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.”
“I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.”
“A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.”

Source : "Iain Duncan Smith vows to tackle 'absurd' welfare dependency". www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2010.
“Nobody is freeâ€¦ Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.”
“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”

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