"I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone,"

-- Ed Koch

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“It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.”
“If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.”
“There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.”
“The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.8, Albert Einstein Institution
“Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.”
“I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!”
“Theres always a price for what you want.”
“To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.”

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