"Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow"

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Source : "A Skeptical Outsider Becomes Bush's 'Wartime General'". www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2008.

Henry Paulson

#People Quotes #Conspiracy Quotes #Authority Quotes

“I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,â€ Marcus said. â€œCharity toward whom?â€ â€œToward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldnâ€™t make a world better than this,”

Source : Daniel Abraham (2011). “The Dragon's Path: Book 1 of The Dagger and the Coin”, p.104, Hachette UK
“But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.”
“It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that ...”
“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”
“It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.”
“Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.”

Source : Carson McCullers (1961). “Clock without hands”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Iâ€™ll never second guess the things that I have done. Iâ€™ve got too much left to say and too much to become.”
“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”

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