"Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live."

-- Jean Vanier

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“In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda...we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.”
“I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.”
“For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.”

Source : "Decade: Sofia Coppola on 'Lost in Translation'" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. December 14, 2009.
“I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.”
“Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.”
“We are seeking to avoid a new Cold War, avoid a new arms race, and, therefore, we continue to work for a more constructive relationship with Russia, including political dialogue with Russia.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.”
“Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.”

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