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“Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.”
Source : Richard Diebenkorn, John McEnroe, Jane Livingston, Barnaby Conrad (2003). “Richard Diebenkorn: figurative works on paper”, Chronicle Books
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“I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.”
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“I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.”
Source : "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012. 
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“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”
Source : Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.118, New Directions Publishing
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“Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.”
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“If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.”
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“It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.”
Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.118, Faber & Faber
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“The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.”
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“There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.”
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“I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding their country.”
