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“I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.”
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“Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness.”
Source : Sir Halford John Mackinder (1962). “Democratic Ideals and Reality: With Additional Papers”
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“Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.”
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“We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men”
Source : Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”
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“We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.”
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“John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working.”
Source : "Does being a jerk work?" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2008. 
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“the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.”
