"No government functions without the grease of corruption."

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“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.”

“was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.”

“The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.”

“Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books.”

“The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.”

“I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.”

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"Heinz Isler: Shells for Two Churches" by, Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Vol. 52, No.3 September n. 169."

— Heinz Isler

Technology1926–2009

#politics

"My government's aim for Fiji is not to return to where we once were but to journey forward together to a place we have not yet been, a Fiji of lasting peace and harmony, where nobody is left behind or…"

— Laisenia Qarase

Politics1941–2020

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"He who is the true son of Shri Ramakrishna will manifest the practical side of religious ideas and will set to work with one-pointed devotion without paying heed to the prattling of men or of society.…"

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion1863–1902

#Human Nature

"I found Randi likable and plausible; the only thing that bothered me was the sweeping and intense nature of his skepticism. He was obviously working from the premise that all paranormal phenomena, wit…"

— Colin Wilson

Literature1989–2013

#philosophy