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“A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.”
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“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
Source : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stanley Sadie, Fiona Smart (2016). “The Letters of Mozart and his Family”, p.749, Springer
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“Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.”
Source : Roy Peter Clark (2011). “Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces”, p.10, Hachette UK
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“Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.”
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“The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.”
Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.197, Zola Books
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“Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.”
Source : "Do writers need paper?" by Tom Chatfield, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. October 20, 2010.
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“The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species.”
Source : Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.219, SUNY Press