"If one were to claim that the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq have been provided with "keys to heaven" by the Pentagon, would that need historical research to be disproved or would you just say, "That's just propaganda"? Indeed, how can you disprove the claim that U.S. soldiers have such keys? Or why should you disprove such ridiculous claims? It is the accusers who must provide the evidence."

-- Mohammad Marandi

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“Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too....”
“Any business you're involved with, and racing is no different, is about people. It's all about people.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.”
“While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.”
“Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.”

Source : Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House
“My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.”

Source : "Steinways" by George Wright, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2003.
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
“Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.”

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