"The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement."

-- Shirley Hazzard

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“Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.”
“That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.”

Source : "Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher - review" by Mal Peet, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2013.
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.”
“I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.”

Source : "Danny DeVito: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2010.
“When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.”
“When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.”

Source : "Q&A: Senator Ron Wyden on NSA Surveillance and Government Transparency". www.rollingstone.com. August 15, 2013.
“I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.”
“But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.”

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