"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.”
“I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.”
“Hereâ€™s a secret intel bulletin for all yâ€™all whoâ€™ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasionâ€”the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.”
“There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.”
“I'm a woman that's living in this world of everybody telling everyone how they should look, and what they should be eating and how people can lose this much weight this fast, and it just kind of overwhelms our senses. If I could just make the tiniest bit of difference in getting rid of that because it is so annoying, I would love that.”
“The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.”
“Yeah!" shouted Jonah, twirling the much larger Hamilton around the restaurant in a victory dance. The other diners watched in amazement. This wild display was hardly the public image of the too-cool-for-school Jonah Wizard. "What's the matter?" Hamilton challenged. "Haven't you ever seen a happy rapper before?”
“As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth,”

Source : "Controversy over Adolf Hitler statue in Warsaw ghetto" by Cass Jones, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.

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