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"There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden’s early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with the remark that the later position might be considered a more rare…"

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

"The course of history does not include eternal problems, problems of essences or of dialectics; it only offers valorizations that differ from one culture to another and even from one individual to ano…"

"Unable to do anything for a month after the ordeal. No more cancer. No more radiation. My doctor pronounced me clear on March 29. Felt the crucifixion this year, and the tomb, and Easter Sunday. Still…"

"NATO foreign ministers met several days ago to support the US position. According to media reports, they did this after Washington presented certain irrefutable documents confirming that the treaty wa…"

"A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women."

"When I hit reset every 24 hours, in my mind I'm in competition with myself and whatever I did the day before, to keep topping how I did it... that's how I measure if I'm any greater in my action steps…"

"I like ABBA and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin. And E.L.O., and Funkadelic. Wait. Mommy, are they the same thing?"

"Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past, present, and future."

"It is sublime as night and a breathless ocean. It contains every religious sentiment, all the grand ethics, which visit in turn each noble poetic mind .... It is of no use to put away the book if! tru…"

"Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-…"

"I’m terribly concerned that when you talk about the New York Times these days, when you talk about The Washington Post these days, we’re not talking about the New York Times of 50 years ago. We are no…"

"Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. … For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form —…"

"While the sale of daughters was practiced in England for seven hundred years after the introduction of Christianity, we note that by the ancient law of India, a father was forbidden to sell his daught…"

"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"

"Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music."

"I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity …"

"The present serves to enclose you the letter of the father in favor of his son from Mr. Charles Boarman, , addressed to me, and a letter from the son himself stating his wish to procure the place of m…"

"Sometimes counting seconds is a great way to kill time through a woman's tantrums."

"Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite."