"Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree."

-- Karen Armstrong

“There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.”
“War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate. . . . We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.”
“I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos â€“ in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever â€“ was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives Iâ€™ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And Iâ€™m keeping the last shell for myself.”

Source : "The Fuller Memorandum (The Laundry Files, Book 3)". Book by Charles Stross, July 1, 2010.
“I want to party in space because I make alien music.”

Source : "Where Pop Music Meets Dance Music". Interview with Taryn Haight, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.
“There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.”
“What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.”
“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...”

Source : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK
“the desert breeds reserve. It is so big that one's own plans and projects seem too little to be talked about. Also, there is so much time to say anything that one continually puts it off and ends by never saying it at all.”

Source : Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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