"I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you."

-- Bill Walton

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“Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.”
“You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others”

Source : "Don’t abandon the Iran Nuclear Deal, embrace it to build regional peace" by Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2017.
“We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that?”
“What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are?”
“Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.”
“He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.”

Source : Areopagitica (1644)
“...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)”
“Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.”

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