"If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place."

-- G. Campbell Morgan

“When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.”
“Look, there are no shortcuts in golf, and there are no shortcuts in life. You have to work for it. Dream big and keep your dreams for yourself. Because the dreams that you have are those things that separate you from others. If you give up your dream, you give up hope. And without hope, you are nothing.”
“In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.”
“There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when I say repetitive it's in the same tradition as people like Steve Reich or Erik Satie or even WC.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.”
“A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land.”
“My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.”
“Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.”

Source : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.48, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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