"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."

-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

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“You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.”
“We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.”
“Not everything in my life has been pretty.”
“Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.”

Source : Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com
“I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?”
“New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.”
“In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.”

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