"You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt"

-- Clement Attlee

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“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.”
“Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.”

Source : Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books
“The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.”
“By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.”
“I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.”
“A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.”
“If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.”

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