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"If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

- Marjane Satrapi

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."

- Brian Eno

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"

- Edward Abbey Quote Investigato article about it

"Non c'è nessuna differenza tra Prima e Seconda Repubblica. Penso che ci aiuterebbe a migliorare se tutti, sia politici che cittadini, seguissimo qualche consiglio di Karl Marx. Ne cito uno che mi sembra molto significativo: 'Se vuoi raggiungere una perfezione individuale devi agire per la perfezione e il bene dell'umanità'"

- Topo Gigio, live on italian state tv

There's no difference between First and Second [Italian] Republic. I think it would help us be better if we all, both politicians and citizens, followed some of Karl Mark's advice. I'll quote one that I think is very significant: 'If you want to reach individual perfection, you have to act for mankind's perfection and well-being'.

if you don't know who Topo Gigio is please click the wikipedia link, you won't believe it