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Ten Random Quotes

"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
Jiddu Krishnamurti

"A genius is a man who can rewrap a new shirt and not have any pins left over."
Dino Levi

"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it."
Thomas Mann

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."
Stanley Kubrick

"It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them."
Anthony Storr

"Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art."
Jet Li

"I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal."
Mikhail S. Gorbachev

"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
Susan Sontag

"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."
John Dryden

"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
Pablo Neruda

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