"International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles."

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Source : Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

Andrei Sakharov

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“Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.”
“If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good.”
“Evil is like a Vampire. When you take arms against it and destroy it, you find in the end that you are evil too-that it is living on your own actions.”
“I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.”
“Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.”
“As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no margin for error, ... So at least with one guy on, Braden's got a little margin to make a mistake.”
“George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.”

Source : Gideon Haigh (2010). “Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents”, p.197, Victory Books
“The more experienced you are, the better off you are.”

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