"History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead."

-- Arnold J. Toynbee

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“I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.”
“Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.”
“Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.”

Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.75, Hachette UK
“It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.”
“I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.”
“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.”

Source : Charles Wheelan (2010). “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)”, p.28, W. W. Norton & Company
“I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.”

Source : "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.

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