"Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,"

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Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag

Bernard de Mandeville

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“When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge that. Surely what you know as a photographer must impact how you set up your shots.”

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“The image of keys (plural) perhaps suggests not so much the porter, who controls admission to the house, as the steward, who regulates its administration (Is 22:22, in conjunction with 22:15). The issue then is not that of admission to the church (which is not what the kingdom of heaven means; see pp. 45-47) but an authority derived from a delegation of God's sovereignty.”
“The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.”
“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.”
“The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.”
“It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.”
“Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.”
“Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.

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