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I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#because #believe #century #challenges #chosen

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#criminal #eternal-life #freedom #freedom-of-speech-dissent #freedom-of-thought

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#almost #coaches #could #doing #everyone

Cinta yang dicari adalah baik, tetapi cinta yang didapati tanpa dicari adalah lebih baik. ↗

— Pahrol Mohd Juoi

#love #love-come-to-me #life

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#america #basis #being #citizens #class citizens

If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#investigate #want #will #willing #you

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#art #uselessness #utility #art

...The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same race as now, in our age, really, it seems we are a different species...In those days they were men of one idea, but now we are more nervous, more developed, more sensitive; men capable of two or three ideas at once...Modern men are broader-minded - and I swear that this prevents their being so all-of-a-piece as they were in those days. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#broad-mindedness #age

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#leverage #managers #much #really #used

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time. ↗

— Jill Robinson

#deal #extraordinary #less #life #love