"Poets are the sense, philosophersÂÂ the intelligenceÂÂ of humanity."

-- Samuel Beckett

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“God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.”
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
“Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.”
“The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.”

Source : "DST's Yuri Milner: Facebook Is Going To Be The Social Graph That Unifies All Civilization". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. May 24, 2010.
“The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.165, Routledge
“All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.”
“Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.”
“After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.”

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