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“Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.”
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“In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.”
Source : Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax
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“Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.”
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“Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?”
Source : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.81, Penguin
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“The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.”
Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012. 
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“Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.”
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“All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.”
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“Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.”
Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
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“Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends, and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.”
Source : "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.
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“I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.”
