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“We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.”
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“One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.”
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“If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.”
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“Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.”
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“While the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working.”
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“No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.”
Source : Paul Tournier (1967). “To Understand Each Other”, p.29, Westminster John Knox Press
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“You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.”
Source : "Billy Bathgate". Book by E. L. Doctorow, 1989.
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“We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.”
Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014. 
