"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend."

-- Jules Renard

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“The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.”
“If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper Talks Coming Out As Gay, Brother’s Suicide And GLAAD Awards With Madonna". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.
“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”
“I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.”

Source : "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.
“There are similiarities between Nixon and Trump, no question. But there are also big differences. Nixon was shy, private, he attacked the media behind closed doors and insulted people behind their backs, and we only know about it because of the taping system in the Oval Office. The dark side, the vengeance we only know because of these tapes. Trump is right out and front with it. He actually campaigned on how nasty he can be, which found resonance with enough voters to get him into the White House.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.”
“There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.”

Source : "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton, 1947.
“Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.”

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