"The games we have the ability to play in our minds amaze me."

-- Anita Moorjani

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“All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.”
“No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the Messiah, when national barriers will no longer exist and all mankind will live in brotherhood and concord. Until then, the nations must narrow their aspirations to achieve a tolerable modus vivendi.”
“Hereâ€™s the thing about baseball-itâ€™s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batterâ€™s box like a soldier and itâ€™s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But hereâ€™s the thing I didnâ€™t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home runâ€¦ Someone else has to pitch the ball.”
“Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.”

Source : "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.
“I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?”
“I hear what many of you are saying: We donâ€™t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.”
“I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.”
“If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.”

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