"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.”

Source : "The Last Of Nazi War Convictions Will Not End Fight Against Anti-Semitism". "Weekend Edition Saturday" With Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.
“The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.”

Source : "Company Manners: An Insider Tells How to Succeed in the Real World of Corporate Protocol and Power Politics". Book by Lois Wyse. Cited in "QFinance: The Ultimate Resource", p.1809, 2009.
“We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us!”
“You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.”
“Female directors really do need to support each other. Too many times I've been led to believe that my direct competition was other women, as if there can be only a handful of successful female filmmakers a year. That conversation, that perception, needs to change. Women are the people who have helped me make films I love, and I want to be that kind of strength to other women.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.”

Source : Lee Smolin (2008). “Three Roads To Quantum Gravity”, p.106, Hachette UK
“I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.”

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