"It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one ..."

-- Pearl S. Buck

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“I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.”
“The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don't have anything I haven't seen before." "Wanna bet?" he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. "Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on.”
“I think that people have to just go with their gut and follow their passion if they're photographers.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.
“I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.”
“Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.”
“Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.”
“Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?”

Source : Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.28, Haymarket Books
“It is better to live rich than to die rich.”

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