"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."

-- Dennis Potter

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“In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control.”
“Progressive policies are harming the Black community.”
“I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.”
“Dennis McCurdy's Find A Way is a straightforward compilation of suggestions that will simplify your life and set you on the path toward success. The book has the feel of a friendly neighbor sharing the secrets that enabled him to win in life. This is an easy read that pays big dividends. I enjoyed it and highly recommend Find A Way to anyone seeking motivation.”
“Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (1911). “The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid”
“In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.”
“What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.”

Source : "The last word on Depression" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.
“I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.”

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