"Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy."

-- Honore de Balzac

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“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
“I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.”

Source : "Diva Talk: Chatting With Bare Star Missi Pyle". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. January 11, 2013.
“The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies â€” socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor â€” and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.”

Source : "Breaking the great Australian silence". John Pilger's speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of the Sydney Peace Prize, johnpilger.com. November 5, 2009.
“I don't believe in natural science.”
“It's more impressive," I said out loud. "From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it.”
“A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.”
“We know you're stashing him, Cena!”
“When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.”

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