"The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target."

-- Edna Buchanan

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“Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
“Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.”

Source : Suetonius (1997). “Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars, book V-VIII ; Lives of illustrious men”, Loeb Classical Library
“Fasting is truly a secret source of power.”
“Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.”
“[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.”
“He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.”

Source : Joseph Mitchell (2012). “Up in the Old Hotel”, p.411, Random House
“For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2012). “Eternal Perspectives: A Collection of Quotations on Heaven, the New Earth, and Life after Death”, p.84, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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