"I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said."

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Source : Speech in 1988. "What if the Fed Chief Speaks Plainly?" by Floyd Norris, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2005.

Alan Greenspan

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“Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.”
“Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyoneâ€”in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.”

Source : "The Artist and Society” by William H. Gass, medium.com. 1968.
“Am I a technocrat? Im just a guy who went down to the bookstore and bought a couple of textbooks on TCP/IP, which is the underlying protocol of the Internet, and read them. And then I signed on to a computer, which anyone can do nowadays, and I messed around with it for a few years, and now I know all about it. Does that make me a technocrat?”
“I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process from day one because I was learning my parts by myself.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.”
“When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, itâ€™s crippling-like having your heart carved out.”
“We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass.”
“Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself...”

Source : "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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