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“Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.”
Source : Statement in 1981. Special issue of Humankind Advancing, Volume 5, No.1, January 21, 1994.
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“One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.”
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“From Gorbachev to Yeltsin, the pendulum swung one way; now, Putin has pushed it very far in the opposite direction, and the backlash is inevitable. So I think the year 2042 could be quite interesting. Specifically, I think today's reactionary policy will end in total failure and the need for a new perestroika; there will be a "time of troubles," which may well end in the disintegration of Russia.”
Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
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“Justice is a machine which, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”
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“People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.”
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“Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.”
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“I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.”
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“I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.”
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“I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.”
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“If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry.”
Source : Michel Leiris (1987). “Nights as day, days as night”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
