"In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves."

-- Luciano Berio

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“Haiti is closer to anarchy than it is to anything else.”
“It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.”
“Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day were simply humble in our victory. I believe we were more mature then...Maybe it's because the media puts so much pressure on athletes; maybe it's also the money. In my day we competed for the love of the sport...In my day we patted the guy who beat us on the back, wished him well, and that was it.”
“I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.”
“All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.”
“I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.”
“We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.”
“Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.”

Source : Speech on the World Bank Video Series, Amman, Jordan, January 06, 2004.

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