"When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details."

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“Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.”
“The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.”

Source : "Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters". Book by Gregory Colbert, 2005.
“I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.”
“If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.”
“If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids”

Source : "Jimmy Carr: Being Funny". Video, 2011.
“I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.”
“Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.”
“Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.”

Source : John Selden (1786). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses”, p.65

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