"A nice man is a man of nasty ideas."

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Jonathan Swift

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“To watch people push themselves further than they think they can, it's a beautiful thing. It's really human.”
“I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.”
“If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.”

Source : William Penn (1849). “A key, opening the way to every capacity how to distinguish the religion professed by the people called Quakers, from the perversions and misrepresentations of their adversaries: With a brief exhortation to all sorts of people ...”, p.4
“The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or do you want to put it in the stock market?" They're trying to push money into the stock market, into hedge funds, to temporarily bid up prices. Then, all of a sudden, the Fed can raise interest rates, let the stock market prices collapse and the people will lose even more in the stock market than they would have by the negative interest rates in the bank. So it's a pro-Wall Street financial engineering gimmick.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.”
“Everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things has been laughed at.”

Source : "Fictional character: Grandmother Lettie Blodgett". "A Star Is Born", www.imdb.com. 1937.
“My goal was never to sell many records.”
“Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.”

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