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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#democracy #dictatorship #openness #secrecy #should

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#get #gotta #lucky #poker #win

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. ↗

— Irving Howe

#behind #engaging #imagination #leaving #reality

I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#because #does #film #here #i

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. ↗

— Odysseas Elytis

#deal #depth #great #great deal #insignificant

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#around #context #deliberately #i #i am

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#best #case #example #finest #happened

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#colleagues #get #good #good lord #how

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#fallen #heroes #individually #invoke #our

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#arrested #asylum #away #come #everyone