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“We are good if our peers think we’re great. But we are great if the real world thinks we’re good.”
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“To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.”
Source : John Luther Long (2014). “Madame Butterfly”, p.64, John Luther Long
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“What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.”
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“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
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“In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.”
Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown
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“China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.”
Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.415, W. W. Norton & Company
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“I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.”
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“When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.”
