"Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power."

-- Ennio Flaiano

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“This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.”
“I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.”
“You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.”
“When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?”
“The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily likes of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.”

Source : "Standards Relating to the Urban Police Function" by Frank J. Remington, American Bar Association: Advisory Committee on the Police Function, (p. 2), 1972.
“We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.”

Source : Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.187, Random House
“My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.”
“You can borrow my two-carat diamond stud earrings," Aphrodite said. I stopped and looked back at her. "Huh?" She shrugged. "That's as close to a declaration of love as you're gonna get from me.”

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