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“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”
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“It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.”
Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011. 
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“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”
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“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
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“We must use what we have to invent what we desire.”
Source : Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?”
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“I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.”
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“The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.”
Source : EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.300
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“It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.”
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“Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.”
Source : "NASA Investigation Finds No Drunken Astronauts" by Ashley Phillips, abcnews.go.com. January 23, 2008.
