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“All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.”
Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.237, Canongate Books
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“Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.”
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“My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he or she shows a good knowledge of what fits them, where you can find naturalness and self-esteem. Not showing off. Elegance is the idea of showing an optimistic depiction of oneself, and to lose oneself in the frivolity of style and fashion.”
Source : "The End of Elegance". Interview with Costantino Della Gherardesca, www.vice.com. February 15, 2012.
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“Karaoke is the great equalizer.”
Source : Aisha Tyler (2005). “Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl”, Plume Books
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“I think the future of food is in insects.”
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“I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.”
Source : Obituary in The Independent, July 11, 2003.
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“I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.”
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“Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.”
Source : FaceBook post by Thomas Cahill from Mar 07, 2015