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“What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.”
Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005. 
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“I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.”
Source : Statement of 1996, as quoted in "Dr. Riemann's Zeros" by Karl Sabbagh, (p. 88), 2003.
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“That's one of those questions that would just love to have a pat answer. You know, poetry's job is to make us feel good. Poetry exists to allow us to express our innermost feelings. There isn't one role for poetry in society. There are many roles for poetry. I wrote a poem to seduce my wife. I wrote a poem when I asked her to marry me. Poetry got me laid. Poetry got me married.”
Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
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“He who dares not (reason), is a slave.”
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“If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.”
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“There has been a fair amount of criticism of the DNC for letting this squabble between [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns spill out into the open.”
Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
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“Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.”
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“The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .”
