"Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others."

-- Jeremy Collier

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“I don't get this shitty attitude that only gays should care about gay issues and only women should care about women's issues.”
“Jesus heals your PAST, is your very PRESENT help and takes care of your FUTURE.”
“You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.”

Source : Frederik Pohl (1975). “The best of Frederik Pohl”, Sidgwick & Jackson
“All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (1994). “The Rock of Tanios”, George Braziller
“It is requisite that we should here say something of Magick, which is so linked to Astrology, as being her near Kinswoman, that whoever professes Magick without Astrology, does nothing, but is altogether out of the way.”

Source : Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1676). “The Vanity of Arts and Sciences”, p.109
“You call it madness, but I call it love.”
“I never wanted to accept that. And so I have always fought against that in some way, shape or form and had - I've had people who have supported trying to get me in for things that were beyond the character description.”
“Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.”

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