"In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour."

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Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

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“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”
“I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.”
“For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.”
“Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered him. In contacts between such deities there is no need for middlemen; each of these gods is able to serve as his own priest.”

Source : Erving Goffman (2005). “Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face to Face Behavior”, p.95, AldineTransaction
“I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.”
“I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.”
“For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.”
“But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.”

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