"You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly."

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Source : "The Neutronium Alchemist". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, 1997.

Peter F. Hamilton

#People Quotes #Embrace Quotes #Ideology Quotes

“To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.”
“Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.”
“You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”
“It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.”
“Murder and lying comes easy for white people.”

Source : "Its goal more widely accepted than its leader", www.cnn.com. October 17, 1995.
“I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.”
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

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