"I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig."

-- Lou Gerstner

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“A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.”

Source : Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.”
“We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.”
“You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.”
“The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.”
“I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it.”
“Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.”
“We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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