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“Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.”
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“If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.”
Source : George Steiner (2010). “No Passion Spent”, p.224, Faber & Faber
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“The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power.”
Source : "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, 1954.
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“Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.”
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“Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.”
Source : FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Apr 05, 2017 
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“So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.”
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“The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.”
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“You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.”
Source : "Fujimori breaks silence and urges release of hostages". www.cnn.com. December 22, 1996.
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“You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.”
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“I cut the ribbon in Paris, and everyone in Paris speaks French — maybe you knew that. But I'm from Tennessee, and Tennessee girls don't speak French. So suddenly I'm stuck onstage with Minnie and Mickey and everyone is yelling at me in French — I guess they're telling me to get off the stage, but I didn't know what they were saying at the time, so I start dancing with Minnie and Mickey like on the show and finally my aunt comes and gets me off.”
