"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."

-- William Hazlitt

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“Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.”
“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

Source : "Appreciations With An Essay On Style". Book by Walter Pater, 1889.
“I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.”

Source : "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
“I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.”
“Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.”
“When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.”
“I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.”

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