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"Aren’t we all, in one way or another, trying to find a solution to the problem of reality? If I get this job, this girl, this guy, these shoes. If I pass this exam, eat this pizza, drink this booze, g…"

"We are blessed with a great people, people who at every critical moment of choosing have put the interests of the country above their own."

"They foresaw that the concession of a Providence would impose an eternal yoke upon their necks, by making them accountable for all they did to a higher tribunal, so that they must necessarily 'pass th…"

"One day she will be the biggest star of the Indian screen."

"All previous distinctions, politics and economics, war and peace, agitation and propaganda, party and mass, the individual and society, national, civil and imperialist war, single country and one worl…"

"It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which…"

"The noble Moor of Spain is anything but a pure Arab of the desert, he is half a Berber and his veins are so full of Gothic blood that even at the present day noble inhabitants of Morocco can trace the…"

"At some point, I stopped and made the following note to myself: I have never finished a story. I'm beginning to see that now. I don't think that there's ever a point where a story or novel is just exa…"

"Eight is not a good number for a collegial body that sometimes disagrees."

"To obtain a greater degree of permanence the time symbols of oral speech had to be converted into the space symbols of written speech. ...The crucial stage in the evolution of writing occurred when id…"

"Second. The cross-border transfer of the savings of the Executive to augment the appropriations of other offices outside the Executive."

"We call the wise age that in which men had a wonderful knowledge of science which we recognize without fail by certain signs, although without knowing who they were, or in what place, or when. ...It h…"

"The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist."

"Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?"

"Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the beli…"

"I knew it was useless to tell the governor about conditions as I found them. I knew he would be neither interested nor would he care. It wasn’t election time."

"Except for times Fred worked with real professional dancers like Cyd Charisse, it was a twenty five year war."

"There is no doubt that to-day feeling in totalitarian countries is, or they would like it to be, one of contempt for democracy. Whether it is the feeling of the fox which has lost its brush for his br…"

"There’s nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small machine made of words."

"I was so focused on all of that, that it took me many hours, until my kids called, ironically. My kids both called and just left a little message that they were OK. And I turned around and went — Oh, …"