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The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true. — Jamaica Kincaid

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles. — Enoch Powell

Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it — Ralph Yarborough

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. — Mary McCarthy

Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't. — Barbra Streisand

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard. — A-Trak

By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. — Barbara Demick

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that. — Brandon Flowers

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business. — Larry Poons

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love ... and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal Proverb — A.B. Shepherd

I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five. — Wong Kar-Wai

The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard. — Andrea Camilleri