"Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.”
“Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.”

Source : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
“It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.”
“They ought to create a new league for that guy.”
“My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.”

Source : "Zuckerberg Talks To Charlie Rose About Steve Jobs, IPOs, And Google’s “Little Version Of Facebook”". techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.
“My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.”

Source : Phyllis Bentley (2011). “Inheritance”, p.460, A&C Black
“We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.”
“Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.”

Source : Yakov Smirnoff (1987). “America on six rubles a day”, Vintage

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