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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
Source : Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)
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“The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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“I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -”
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“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
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“After one month with a saxophone shoved in my mouth, my military combatant's enthusiasm disappeared completely. Instead of flying choppers behind enemy lines, I started to fantasise about living in New York, London or Paris.”
Source : Gilad Atzmon (2011). “The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics”, p.3, John Hunt Publishing
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“Georg always looks beautiful! He wakes up like beauty himself”
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“Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.”
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“I went for an audition, which was shrouded in all kinds of secrecy to keep the storyline under wraps, and 5 days later I was in Atlanta and 700 years older.”
