"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."

-- Fran Lebowitz

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“You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside.”
“The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.”
“People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.”
“Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.”
“Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.”
“The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
“I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.”
“The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.”

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