"Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away."

-- Calvin Trillin

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“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
“Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now.”
“It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.”

Source : "Interview with Hooman Majd: US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.
“Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.”
“Sometimes we don't face what's going on in our world, be it a water crisis or an earth crisis, because it's a little too scary and painful. Just like we don't want to face the parts of ourselves that are a little too uncomfortable or painful. We've gotta face both and love both so that we can heal both.”
“If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.”
“If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.”
“Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.”

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