"A truly unselfish act is not mine, but God's. It cannot be obstructed. Only for my own plans, my own wishes to study, to work, to rest, eat, or do a service to my fellowman- can some external circumstance "get in the way," and then I am grieved."

-- Tito Colliander

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“Music's the medicine of the mind.”
“There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.”
“The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.”

Source : "Play for today" by Pat Kane, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.
“Turkish society is divided not only culturally but also politically. You're either conservative or progressive. Islamist or secular. Right wing or left wing. This kind of division can be seen in any society, but in Turkey, the problem is that we are losing any kind of connection between groups and any kind of desire to understand one another. The groups hate each other and they are demolishing all bridges between themselves. So society is divided strictly.”
“If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.”
“You certainly can't be a perfect person, coming up with the 100% correct solution, all the time. It's just a combination of a chain of good decisions that comes up with a successful product or a successful film. That's what you hope for. But, nothing about the system is 100% fool proof.”
“Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.”
“Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill (1682). “Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises: The One, Lux Orientalis; Or, An Enquiry Into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages Concerning the Præxistence of Sovls”, p.97

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