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“The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements are so infernally dull.... our business needs massive transfusions of talent. And talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.”
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“I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway”
Source : " Leonora Carrington once served her guests a hair omelette. My kind of woman" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011. 
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“People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.”
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“Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.”
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“You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.”
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“A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.”
Source : Shelby Steele (2009). “A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America”, p.10, Harper Collins
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“If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.”
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“London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.”
Source : Alec Waugh (2011). “The Sugar Islands: A Collection of Pieces Written About the West Indies Between 1928 and 1953”, p.208, A&C Black
