"Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."

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William James

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“As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.”
“Writer George Orwell confessed he found something "deeply appealing" about Adolf Hitler. Where Martha Dodd was struck by Hitler's "weak, soft face," Orwell discerned "a pathetic dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs." All this is a reminder that psychopaths have been known to possess engaging qualities, and that Hitler was no less repellent for not sporting fangs.”
“I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.”
“I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.”
“Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.”
“At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
“You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.”

Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.80, Hachette UK
“Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the Labor Leader more seriously than he deserves to be taken, while taking the ordinary, everyday, middle-of-the-road wage-earner less seriously than he deserves to be taken.”

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