"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

-- Lin Yutang

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“I favor a form of cosmopolitanism that takes nations very seriously, particularly because of the role of national law in sustaining or, unfortunately, undermining human rights. Some cosmopolitans take the metaphor of global citizenship - the etymology of the word, after all, just comes from a Greek phrase meaning citizen of the world - to rule out taking national citizenship seriously. I think that's a big mistake. Why can't I be loyal to America and to humanity? After all, I can be loyal to America and to New York city!”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those genres fully.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.”
“The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first hit, and then, as his face comes forward, connect with your other fist: one, two. Both are effective; but they can be administered only by a real artist, with a real wish to knock his enemy out.”
“All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better.”
“I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.”
“In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.”

Source : James G. Watt, Doug Wead (1985). “The courage of a conservative”, Simon & Schuster
“I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas.”

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