"The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive."

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Source : "Decline, Fall, Rinse, Repeat" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

Adam Gopnik

#Powerful Quotes #Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.”
“Human beings did not have rights.Â Human beings created, from nothing, the domain of human rights.Â They called it up. They languaged it.Â They communicated it.Â Communication has that power.Â It has the power not only to represent and not only to evoke, but literally to bring something into being.Â Â And to know yourself, to know your self, as a context creator,Â is to transform the quality of your life.”
“Itâ€™s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.”
“A useless life is an early death.”
“No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.”

Source : Manmohan Singh, Smita Vats Sharma, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2005). “Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: June 2005 to May 2006”
“For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.”
“We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.”
“Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.”

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