"Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do."

-- Raymond Mortimer

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“What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.”
“I'm old-school. I like action, but I want to see somebody fall in love. I want to see that life stuff.”

Source : "Ernie Hudson wants more romance in his Ghostbusters". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. July 31, 2016.
“I also think now that Islamic terrorism is going to be front and center, there is going to be a new focus on whether this administration, the administration of Hillary Clinton at State, was permeated at the highest levels by Saudi intelligence and others who are not loyal Americans.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.”
“People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.”
“The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.”
“If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!”

Source : "The magic washing machine". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December 2010.
“I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two.”

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