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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#delight #focused #gift #lesson #moment

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#audience #contempt #performer #sin #ultimate

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#continent #country #descent #estimated #europe

To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. ↗

— Arturo Toscanini

#me #napoleon #philosophical #some #struggle

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

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To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages. ↗

— Leon Askin

#also #considered #disadvantages #dumont #great

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#beauty #big #comfortable #constant #contributes

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#development #economic #economic development #freedom #openness