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“Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts circulate within a group, their commerce leaves a series of interconnected relationships in its wake, and a kind of decentralized cohesiveness emerges.”
Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.20, Vintage
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“The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.”
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“We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.”
Source : Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”
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“I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems”
Source : "Interview – PHP’s Creator, Rasmus Lerdorf". Interview with Kevin Yank, www.sitepoint.com. May 22, 2002. 
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“I think that first love defines you and your relationships, for the rest of your life. I had a great first love. My heart was ripped out of my chest, but I think that happens to everyone.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.”
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“It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.”
