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“And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?”
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“This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.”
Source : 1987 Speech to international meeting of satirists and cartoonists. Reported in the NewYork Times, 28 Jun.
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“I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.”
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“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”
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“There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.”
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“There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.”
Source : "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, March 3, 2000.
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“Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.”
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“The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.”
Source : James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.7, Inner City Books
