"When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner."

-- Annie Lennox

“I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.”
“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.”
“Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama.”
“Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.”
“It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.”

Source : "Ahtisaari Wins Nobel Peace Prize". news.bbc.co.uk. October 10, 2008.
“It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.”
“Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.”

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