"Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses."

-- Honore de Balzac

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“The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.”
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”

Source : "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.
“With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it”
“What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.”

Source : "Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir". Book by Hélène Claparède-Spir, p.58, 1937.
“I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.”
“I became a Catholic against my will.”
“Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.”

Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 21, 2011.

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