"In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure."

-- Anna Lindh

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“Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together.”
“[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.”
“It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.”

Source : "Music View; Whatever Happened To Spontaneity In Performance?" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 1984.
“If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.”
“False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.”
“I have told somebody in court that 'I understand yours is the most important case in the world, and I'm trying to treat it as the most important case in the world, but five minutes from now I'm going to be dealing with the next person's most important case in the world.' For every litigant, theirs is the most important case.”
“Good melody is never out of fashion”

Source : Robert Bridges (1927). “Collected Essays, Papers, Etc”, Georg Olms Verlag
“Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.”

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