"I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck."

-- Placido Domingo

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“I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.”
“People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.”
“If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.”
“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

Source : Victor Cousin (1852). “Course of the History of Modern Philosophy”, p.32
“When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.”

Source : Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.
“Topcats often begin as underdogs.”
“The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.”
“Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.”

Source : Gary Paulsen (2001). “Brian's Winter”, p.14, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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