"O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?"

-- Ovid

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“At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.”

Source : Tony Blair's speech to Faithworks, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.
“Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.”
“People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.158, Simon and Schuster
“Children in Indonesia are scared because they are like the property of their parents and mostly treated as such. Women are scared because they are humiliated on a daily basis and treated like meat, like sexual objects, like slaves.”
“The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.”
“To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.”
“Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.”
“I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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