"I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time."

-- King Edward VIII

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“You should know the truth about the stars--- even though it seems like they're close together, up there in heavens, they're zillion light years apart.”
“I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.”
“Some shall reap that never sowAnd some shall toil and not attain.”

Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" Book by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
“Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.”
“When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.”
“I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.”
“When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience,”

Source : "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
“Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.”

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