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“All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.”
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“The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.”
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“Perhaps the most striking thing about the 2015 State of the Union address was not the president at the podium but the audience in the seats. The joint session of Congress listening to President Obama Tuesday night included 83 fewer Democrats than the group that heard Obama's first address in 2009 - 69 fewer Democrats in the House and 14 fewer in the Senate. The scene in the House Chamber was a graphic reminder of the terrible toll the Obama years have taken on Capitol Hill Democrats.”
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“The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think. I wanted to pay tribute to that mind.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.”
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“Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.”
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“Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.”
Source : "Attention Scum!", Episode 1, 2001.
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“I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.”
Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Eating People is Wrong”, p.77, Pan Macmillan
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“One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.”
Source : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.67, Copper Canyon Press
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“I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.”
Source : "His Last Words", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 388-90, 1922.
