"... governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology ..."

-- Taslima Nasrin

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“Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!”
“Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.”
“The new limitations are the human ones of perception.”

Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, December 13, 1996.
“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Park Bucker (2000). “To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence”, p.21, Univ of South Carolina Press
“The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.”
“I love America. America gave me wings.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dieter Dengler". "Rescue Dawn" Biography, www.imdb.com. 2006.
“I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal”
“I grew up with a sense of tolerance. I don't know that there was any talk about gender differences. It was respect for people. So when I became a professional and saw that there were a lot of differences in the sense of how people lived their lives, I became respectful of their territory, of their thoughts and their ideas, and it was never a problem for me to feel that this is my sister, this is my brother.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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