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“True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.”
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“I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.”
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“Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but nothing about becoming a human being, nothing about having important feelings or concepts of humanity. That's the sort of thing that is bad education. I'd say be a human being first and if you happen to wind up using photography, that's good for photography.”
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“Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.”
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“So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.”
Source : "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010. 
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“... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.”
Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.
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“The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires a considerable degree of free time, health, and an outlook of confident positivism. Thus, the religious authorities work hard to make and keep people feeling sinful, unworthy, and unhappy.”
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“In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.”
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“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”
Source : Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
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“I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.”
