"The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence."

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Source : "he Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance". Book by Laurie Garrett, 1995.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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“A leader who accepts the outside financing of his movement is like the man who accustoms his body to live on medication. To the extent an organism is administered medication, to the same extent it is condemned to being unable to react on its own. Moreover, when it is deprived of the medication, it dies; it is at the mercy of the pharmacist! Likewise, a political movement is at the mercy of those who finance it. These could cease their financing at any given moment and the movement, unaccustomed to living on its own, dies.”
“There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”

Source : Sexual Personae ch. 8 (1990)
“The worst thing in the world is to be bland.”

Source : Source: thebiglead.com
“There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned”

Source : Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.210
“I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.”
“He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.”

Source : "Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45". Book by A. J. Sylvester, 1975.
“Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.”
“I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified”

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