"The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does."

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Maurice Barres

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“Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company
“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.”
“I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.”
“The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.”
“The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.”
“It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.”
“Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.”
“There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language.”

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