"A young lady went into a bookstore and asked the clerk for Irving Stone's book, "Immoral Wife." The title is "Immortal Wife," the clerk replied. "I'll get it for you." Oh, please don't bother, If that's the correct name of the book, I don't think I'd care for it. I had something else in mind."

-- James Keller

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“Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.167, eKitap Projesi
“I think violence can never be justified.”
“I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.”
“The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.”
“I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.”
“To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.”
“The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.”

Source : Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.179, Penguin
“Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Mira Nair, film director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2009.

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