"Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones."

-- Lidiya Ginzburg

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“A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.”
“Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.”
“If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.”
“The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.”
“I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.”
“The best art always comes unbidden.”
“If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.”

Source : "A Tolstoy Speaks, And Russia Listens". Interview with Celestine Bohlen, www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2003.
“Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.”

Source : Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.487

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