"Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job."

-- Stanley Kubrick

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“The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine. Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms. And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel.”
“(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.”
“If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.”
“Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.”
“Play to win because almost doesn't cut it.”
“You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife”
“There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.”
“Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result”

Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.165, Tuttle Publishing

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