"The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective."

-- Raymond Chandler

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“If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.”
“We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.”
“I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.”

Source : "NYFW: At the Burberry Acoustic Party, Tom Odell Swears He's Not Taylor Swift". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 10, 2013.
“Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.”
“Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.”

Source : "Julius Genachowski: The Exit Interview". Interview with Jeffrey Rosen, newrepublic.com. May 23, 2013.
“Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.”
“The greatest response to a negative person is to be a positive person”
“The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.”

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