"Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House."

-- Hedy Lamarr

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“An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.”
“What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!!”
“To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.894, Penguin
“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing
“There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids... her uterus fell out!”
“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”

Source : Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.96, Penguin
“Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality.”

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