"I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it."

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Source : "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 142), 1990.

Maurice Cowling

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Satanic Quotes

“The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.”
“People have a right to their opinion.”
“When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.”
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

Source : "Wake Up, Parents!". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 18, 2000.
“I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.”
“I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.”
“In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it... Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.”

Source : Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.20, Penguin
“Weâ€™ve got to stick together, thatâ€™s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I donâ€™t want to end up here alone, like the Hermit. Then this really would be Hell. Humans do such terrible things to each other that sometimes my brain tells me they must be evil. But my heart still isnâ€™t convinced. I just hope we can survive.”

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