"The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.”
“Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.”
“Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”
“Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.”
“Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.”
“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”
“I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.”

Source : "The prosecution of Rebekah Brooks and her husband: the statements", www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.
“It was an incredible way to grow up, because words that you're taught - these definite things - you realize they sort of beautifully fall apart; that words are tenuous. In the middle of a large word, there's a small word that possibly contradicts the larger word. So I grew up where, on the one hand, the only thing I would ever think of doing was something in writing, music, or art, and on the other hand, I could've reacted strongly against it because it would've been a way to rebel.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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