"The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst from happening."

-- Brian Urquhart

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“Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.”
“There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.”
“If it wasn't for the publicity, I would've been out of here and gone a long time ago.”
“Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2016). “The Conquest of Bread”, p.84, Peter Kropotkin
“Anthony Davis is cool.”

Source : "Deron Williams: LeBron James Is 'Definitely Crazy'" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. September 11, 2012.
“What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. Iâ€™m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.”
“The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.”
“Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after Iâ€™ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each â€˜Iâ€™, every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, youâ€™ll have to swallow the world.”

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