"If nothing is at risk, nothing is established."

-- Brian Ferneyhough

“You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.”
“Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.32, Verso
“Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.”
“What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.”
“When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.”
“Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”
“The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.”

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