"In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator."

-- Jean Cocteau

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“We should learn to think with our fingers.”

Source : "Meditation" by Jose Lorenzo-Fuentes, (p. 113), 2003.
“There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.”

Source : "Nuclear blast victims would have to wait". usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 13, 2010.
“[Kim Kardashian] is one of the hardest-working women I've been around ever.”
“Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.”
“Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.”

Source : "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 43), 1766.
“False casting for practice is the best way to achieve the feel of the line in the air, but in actual fishing, false casts should be limited in number to absolute necessity. In the first place, the more false casts you make, the greater are the chances for the fish to see your arm waving, or the line in the air. And the greater are your chances to make a mistake in the cast and lose your timing. Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.”

Source : Joe Brooks (1985). “Trout Fishing”, Outdoor Life
“The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.”
“Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms”

Source : "The Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Legislation: Future Generations Will Thank You" by H. A. Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2014.

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