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We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity - governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.

-- Miguel Syjuco

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Y no digo que no sean felices. Sólo que hay que tener mucho cuidado con lafelicidad. Porque tiene tendencia a ser temporal.

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Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

-- Frank Herbert

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Leadership is being the first egg in the omelet.

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I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.

-- Woody Harrelson

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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

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Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

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There is no love which does not become help.

-- Paul Tillich

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Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument.

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Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

-- Sydney Pollack

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