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“The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.”
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“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”
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“I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language they'd addressed me in using the same accent that they used. There would be a brief moment of confusion, and then the suspicious look would disappear.”
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“Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.”
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“But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.”
Source : "The case for western missile defence" by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2010.
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“The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.”
Source : Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books
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“Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.”
Source : "Mumbai is my kind of city" by Vikas Swarup, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2008.
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“Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.”