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“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
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“Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.”
Source : L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Magic of Recluce”, p.378, Macmillan
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“A liar freely gives his oath”
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“I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
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“Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.”
Source : Martin Ritt, Gabriel Miller (2003). “Martin Ritt: Interviews”, p.205, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!”
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“I spent a month in India and where I learnt an important word for me, for everything that had come before and after, and the was the word 'seva' - the work you do without wanting reward, simply for the work itself, for the spiritual, for the practice and the experience it gives you by doing that work. I began to realise it was something I was searching for all my life, that I was doing theatre not for myself but for something for a search, for a seeking for something that is behind that, to find a truth somewhere about us.”
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“You'd be surprised how much free time I have.”
Source : "Why will the likes of Straw and Rifkind never learn? Because they are addicted to being liked" by Ian Jack, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2015. 
