"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."

-- Emile M. Cioran

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“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”
“The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.”

Source : James Gustave Speth (2008). “The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability”, p.1, Yale University Press
“When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Bowen, news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.
“I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.”
“Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.”
“When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.”
“My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.”
“He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.”

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