"Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail."

-- Dalai Lama

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“The look of the movie and the music, which was by Jack Nitzsche, is what really stands out to me. I don't know if the movie succeeds as a political, cultural comment on the times and the war in Vietnam, and the capitalists versus the everyday guy that gets sent off to fight corporate wars. I don't know if the movie ever succeeded in that range. But it was a wonderful part in the Cutter's Way.”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.”
“Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...”

Source : Paul Bowles (1955). “The Spider's House”
“Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.”
“And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.”
“It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.”

Source : 'Chard Whitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)' (1946)
“Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.”

Source : Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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