"They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it."

-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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“I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.”
“The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.”
“But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.”
“No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a passing whim (if it had been the hard work would have dispelled it in a very short time!). I think there were three chief reasons for my choice of career: First, a real love for, and interest in aviation Secondly, a determination to earn my own money and to make my career a paying proposition. Thirdly, a conviction that aviation was a profession of the future and therefore had room to welcome its new followers.”
“Actors are frightened little children.”

Source : "‘My life sucks,’ says SAG president". Interview with Sharon Waxman, www.thewrap.com. January 29, 2009.
“I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.”
“I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.”
“Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.”

Source : "Bringing Free Market Choices to Education" by John Katzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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