"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."

-- Jeremy Bentham

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“I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.”
“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”

Source : "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia". Book by Mohsin Hamid, February 27, 2013.
“Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.”
“This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriouslyâ€”" â€œYes,â€ Roger said. â€œShe's the one.”
“Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books donâ€™t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
“They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them”
“I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?”
“I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.”

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