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• I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

  Roger Federer

  Dream, Children, World

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• It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

  Roger Federer

  Morning, Sleep, Practice

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• The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Spiritual, Self

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• I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

  Carl Jung

  Circles, Resistance, Sun

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  Vikas Swarup

  Jobs, Writing, Weekend

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• You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Writing, Cake

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• Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Elderly, Twenties, Would Be

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Rendezvous With Rama”, p.6, RosettaBooks

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• Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lying, Play

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

  Steve Earle

  Musical, Becoming, Theater

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• If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.

  Elliott Smith

  Moon, Sun, Faults

  Song: Little One, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

  Adam Duritz

  Girl, Mexico, Bottles

  "Song: 'Holiday in Spain'". 2002.

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• If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

  Stephan Pastis

  Fall, Parks, Minutes

  "Cartoonist Stephan Pastis cast aside his career in law to put Pearls on the comics page" by Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2005.

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• For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

  Alexander Pope

  Toil, Lovers, Ends

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.42, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

  Alexander Pope

  Mother, Weed, Men

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.355, Delphi Classics

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• If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

  Lana Del Rey

  Fighting, Artist, Choices

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• In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

  Chinua Achebe

  Vocabulary, Disease, Opponents

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “Anthills of the Savannah”, p.100, Heinemann

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• If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Mean, People, Malaria

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• I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

  Vikas Swarup

  Writing, Imagination, Creative

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• I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

  Rafael Nadal

  Soccer, Player, Choices

  "Ask Rafa: send a question to Rafael Nadal". www.smh.com.au. January 31, 2012.

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• In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Sight, Use

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

  Aristotle

  Would Be, Citizens, Body

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

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• So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.

  Naomi Klein

  Economic Models, Justice, Climate

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• Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Politics, Idiot, Imagine

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• If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.

  Alan Greenspan

  Thinking, Economist

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• Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

  Robert Solow

  Games, Battle, Want

  "Conversations With Economists: New Classical Economists and Opponents Speak Out on the Current Controversy in Macroeconomics". Book by Arjo Klamer, 1983.

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