"We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty."

-- Bill Bradley

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“All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.”
“A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.”
“It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.”
“Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.”
“Real art must always involve some witchcraft.”

Source : "Letters from Africa: 1914-1931". Book edited by Frans Lasson translated by Anne Born, 1981.
“The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.”
“To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.”
“I love suits, but onstage it's too hot. So, I like a nice T-shirt!”

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