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“One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.”
Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016. 
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“He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts.”
Source : "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.
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“I do think that our bodies are capable of many magical and inexplicable things that have nothing to do with reproduction. I have read that some birds may sing just for pleasure and not for any other Darwinian imperative. Birds singing because it feels good - that's the kind of biology that helps me understand this diverse world.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“By the time I came of age and, indeed, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, I had seen the entire William Shakespeare canon, which, in those days, you were quite able to do. Now, it's a much harder thing. Mrs. Thatcher was really axing public subsidy for the arts.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts.”
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“The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.”
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“Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.”
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“It's funny how things work out sometimes.”
