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“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.”
Source : Marco Polo, William Marsden (1926). “The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian”, Doubleday
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“I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.”
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“We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.”
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“Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.”
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“I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.”
Source : "Music of The O.C.: Interview With Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. March 22, 2005. 
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“I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind this dispossessed place... I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work and their hurry to return to their folk... and their need to say: Good Morning...”
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“I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.”
Source : "Reforming the Way Washington Works". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.
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“Once the reality sets in of a superhuman intelligence being in control of every aspect of the infrastructures we rely upon for everyday life, we will simply have to try to come to an accommodation with that entity.”
Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.
