"A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown."

-- John O. Brennan

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“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”
“Iâ€™m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.”
“If you're going to have 19 children, you should supervise them well.”
“The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to see all the beauty, holiness and perfection of the Gods.”
“My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.”
“I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.”
“For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?”
“Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.”

Source : Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

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