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"The things we call aristocracies and reigning houses are the last places to look for masterful men. They began strongly, but they have been too long in possession. They have been cosseted and comforte…"

"I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never want to do material that makes people laugh at the expense of making other people feel bad…"

"What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange."

"See What Burning Man Was Like in the 90’s," ABC News interview with Larry Harvey"

"If authors have any responsibilities in the face of disaster, the greatest of them is to bear witness...I’ve always cared about how the weak survive great upheavals. The individuals who are left out —…"

"There is no road to the land without roads."

"The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail."

"The Self-Aware Universe - An Interview with Amit Goswami" by Craig Hamilton, What is Enlightenment?"

"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination."

"Molecular dynamics is not primarily about making movies of molecules. More often it is about developing quantitative predictions of molecular size and shape, flexibilities, interactions with other mol…"

"I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old."

"Thick rumors of imminent peace are in the air.. .Big spectacle with six or seven British tanks. In the afternoon, they played war once more at the Palaisplein and at the Rokin ."

"There was an incident early in our careers when he was riding pillion on a motorbike with me. When I skidded, Rajini asked if I knew how to ride. I assured him even if I fell, I wouldn't let him fall."

"Everything is absurd."

"With no more frontiers to explore.... the modern, effeminate, bourgeois "First World" states can no longer produce new honor cultures."

"Defeat takes the form of ultimate disillusion — a disgust with the "futility of endless pursuit."

"Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master..."

"I've always understood that we went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the north about. I've never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery."

"And with faint praises one another damn."

"I am at work on a girl. It is quite simple a girl getting up on the edge of her bed and pulling on her stockings. The bed is whitish, and in addition there are white sheets, a white nightdress, a beds…"