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“What I mean is this: you meet someone, you think about them. You're already changing because of the way you think about them. You meet them again, you think about them some more, you're changing again. And on it goes. You are changing right now. Before my eyes.”
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“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”
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“I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.”
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“To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.”
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“If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!”
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“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.”
Source : Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.70, Columbia University Press
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“Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.”
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“China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.”
Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.415, W. W. Norton & Company