"This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare."

-- James Forrestal

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“The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.”
“No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.”
“History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.”

Source : "In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 20, 1936.
“I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.”
“Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.”
“[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.”
“Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.”
“Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.”

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