"Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them."

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Marcel Proust

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“By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilization as against barbarism, of progress as against stability. Even if the agreements were in Denmark's favor -- which is very doubtful-this right carries more weight than all the agreements, for it is the right of historical evolution.”
“Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.”
“But the first thing that we have to do is to say, â€œI walk towards the tunnel, and Iâ€™m on my own, and Iâ€™m not afraid. And I have no regrets.”
“From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.”
“The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.”
“If you really want to know, Iâ€™d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thingâ€™s done now, of course, and I canâ€™t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”
“He who dares not (reason), is a slave.”
“The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff.”

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