"I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler , but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin 's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death."

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Source : "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 155), 2004.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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“There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.”
“I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it”
“I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.”
“[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.”
“... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.”
“The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think just about any moral theory, worked out intelligently, and applied with good judgment, would get just about the same results as any other.”
“We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.”

Source : Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.180, North Atlantic Books
“Innovate, integrate, innovate, integrate, that's the way the industry works, ... Graphics was a stand-alone graphics card; then it's going to be a stand-alone graphics chip; and then part of that's going to get integrated into the main CPU.”

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