"Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that."

-- Marilynne Robinson

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“Behind every fortune there is a crime.”
“You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.”
“You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.”

Source : "Czech warns Europe of 'dream world' woes". www.washingtontimes.com. November 24, 2003.
“I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.”
“As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.”
“Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays. I have invented a mask that makes me look like anybody. People will not even turn round in the streets. You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased.”
“Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.”
“I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.”

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