"A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart."

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Source : Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

Pietro Aretino

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“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”

Source : Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen, at Second Conference on Chemical Weapons Treaty Review, www.government.nl. April 07, 2008.
“Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.”

Source : "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.
“Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.”
“We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.”

Source : Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.59, Penguin
“I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.”
“I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?”
“There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.”

Source : "Is Global Warming a Sin?" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2007.
“Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.”

Source : "The Philosophy of Ruby". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. September 29, 2003.

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