"As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Mean Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes #People Quotes

“Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.”
“I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.”
“Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.”
“You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.”
“There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.”
“He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.”

Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster
“Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.”

Source : "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer". 1976.
“In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.”

Source : "Novak Djokovic: From war to Wimbledon". "60 minutes" with Bob Simon, www.cbsnews.com. March 27, 2012.

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