"Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away."

-- Charles Van Doren

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“The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.”
“Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.”
“I want to play Geum Jandi in Boys over Flowers.”
“We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.”
“In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.”

Source : "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.
“The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.”
“We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.”

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