"But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself."

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Source : Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.295, Pan Macmillan

Jon Krakauer

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“I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I've had some treatment - and I've improved.”
“The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.”
“There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.”
“It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.”

Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA
“My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.”
“It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.”
“Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.”

Source : "How not to read" by Lionel Shriver, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2014.
“Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.”

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