"If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?"

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.”
“I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.”
“Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we canâ€”working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!”
“I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and she's gonna have a great career.”

Source : "Rocking Runner-Up Bo Bice Wants To Show What He's Really About". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2005.
“He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.”
“The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.”
“It's strange that ''Evangelion'' has become such a hit - all the characters are so sick!”
“Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!”

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