"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.”
“Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.”

Source : Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”
“You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.”

Source : "The Building Has Left Elvis" by Griel Marcus, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“The love shown by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ, to do all in our power to see to it that the message of salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ our Savior was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.”
“In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.”

Source : "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 221), 1970.
“All you really have in the end are your stories.”

Source : "‘Burn Notice’ – ‘Past & Future Tense’: Burt Reynolds and a day at the beach" by Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 22, 2010.
“It's OK to have fun in the Marine Corps. I like to say we are an imperfect people working in an institution that tries to be perfect. That is a noble thing, but you have to realize there is no perfect. We're human.”
“Your version of the truth is all that matters.”

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