"Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake."

-- James Russell Lowell

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“We only have two hours to change people's lives.”
“We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”
“It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.”
“I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft.”
“I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.”

Source : "10 QUESTIONS: PATRICK MACNEE". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. September 17, 2003.
“Fathers and mothers,â€ she found herself saying, â€œleave their mark, no matter if weâ€™ve known them a lifetime or only a day.”
“The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan
“Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.”

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