"I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy."

-- Paul Volcker

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“You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.”
“The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.”

Source : Dean Acheson (1967). “Private thoughts on public affairs: a citizen looks at Congress, and a Democrat looks at his party”
“I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules.”
“We had to google the lyrics to our own song”
“A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...”
“We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.”
“When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.”
“It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.”

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