"One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken."

-- William Safire

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“When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.”
“But you don't need to worry. The Lord will never let his mouthpiece lead the people astray.”
“Transform your employees into passionate disciples. Teach. Create apostles. Give people a calling, not a job.”
“I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.”
“My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer- how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests...The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.”

Source : Speech in the House of Commons, March 11, 1842.
“The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.”
“In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.”

Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street”, p.49, Everyman's Library
“The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.”

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