"Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory ."

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Source : Les Natchez preface (1826)

FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand

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“America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.”
“I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.”
“Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.”
“The truth is that problems won't just go away.”
“Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.”
“Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.”
“I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.”

Source : Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. MArch 21, 2003.
“People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.”

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