"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."

-- Alan Rickman

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“God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.”

Source : Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers, an American Dynasty (1976)
“A belief is an idea around which we close our minds.”
“My God, don't shoot !”
“Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.”
“At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.”
“When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.”
“Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.”
“When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.”

Source : "Bobby Orr: How we're killing hockey". Interview with Ken MacQueen, www.macleans.ca. October 17, 2013.

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