"Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely."

-- Damian Hopley

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“The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.”
“The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping a new world order or is doomed to await collapse in a passive posture. We believe a new orderwill be born no later than early in the next century and that the death throes of the old and the birth pangs of the new will be a testing time for the human species.”
“There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.”
“Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.”

Source : Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books
“I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease”
“This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.”
“On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.”
“A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.”

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