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“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
― Chris Rock

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Ό,τι δεν συνέβη ποτέ, είναι ό,τι δεν ποθήσαμε αρκετά.”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης

“Τελικά μου 'μεινε αυτή η συνήθεια να κοιτάζω αλλού, έτσι σώθηκα από πολλές καταστροφές
όμως είναι πράγματα που δε θα τα μάθουμε ποτέ, όπως το μάκρος των οριζόντων ή το βάθος της λύπης μας.”
― Τάσος Λειβαδίτης, Μικρό βιβλίο για μεγάλα όνειρα

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

“Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.

In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.”
― Noam Chomsky

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired."
"Meaning what?"
"Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
― Peter Ustinov

“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“L'automne est un deuxième ressort où chaque feuille est une fleur.”
― Albert Camus