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“One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic†movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.”
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“I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.”
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“Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.”
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“The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.”
Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
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“Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.”
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“A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.”
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“[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.”
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“If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.”
Source : "The Many Voices of Carlos Alazraqui" by Ryan Ball, www.animationmagazine.net. February 17, 2006.