"People who think about the past have no future."

-- Hermione Gingold

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“Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.”

Source : Kiran Desai (2006). “Inheritance of Loss”, p.323, Penguin Books India
“Having said that, Angela Merkel's electoral district is here [ in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania].And so, if Chancellor Merkel loses here, her party, which has ruled in a coalition government for the last decade here with the Social Democrats - if they lose today, then it's really a very significant slap to the face, if you will. And this is coming at a time when the chancellor is being asked to decide whether she will stand for another term.”
“First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.”
“The first question [American college kids] asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.”
“The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.”
“When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.”

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