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		Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Friedrich Durrenmatt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gary Carr 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm an honest, open father. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				T.I. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Daniel Boulud 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				M. H. Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rainer Maria Rilke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tara Brach 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Patrick Wang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ina Garten 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yossi Sarid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Orson F. Whitney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vanessa Redgrave