"The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations."

-- Chuck Hagel

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“Traveling renews you.”
“My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.”
“To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.”
“At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.”
“It's not necessary to tell all you know.”

Source : Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.45, Infobase Publishing
“The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.”
“Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.”

Source : Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.”

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