"Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will."

-- Eric Hoffer

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“I will leave no stone unturned in my quest - and that quest will be relentless - to try and get Liverpool back on the map again as a successful football club.”
“She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.”
“In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.”

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“If anything, technology has brought out the darker and more sinister side of humanity.”

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“One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.”
“The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.”

Source : Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”
“English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.”

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“At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.”

Source : M. John Harrison (2007). “Viriconium”, p.34, Spectra

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