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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
Source : "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.
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“I think I can get five, six, seven more years out of this arm and these legs.”
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“Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.”
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“We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors”
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“Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.”
Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.13, Albert Einstein Institution
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“So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.”
Source : Daniel Silva (2004). “The Marching Season”, p.66, Penguin
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“I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.”
Source : "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88, 2003.
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“The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.”
