"John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced."

-- Anthony Burgess

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“Discipline is the whole key to being successful. We all get 24 hours each day. That's the only fair thing; it's the only thing that's equal. What we do with those 24 hours is up to us.”
“I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.”

Source : "Egypt PM Hisham Qandil interview". Interview with Khaled Ezz El-Arab, www.bbc.com. September 15, 2012.
“No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.”
“Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.”
“The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.”
“Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.”
“As an actor, you never really set out to be a stand-out character. You just want to do justice to the story and enjoy playing it, and find all the different nooks and crannies of who someone is. For each part that you get, they're all special and you just try to give everything you can to each one. I don't know whether they're going to be stand out in that way or not factors into my work. They all stand out for me.”
“Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.”

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