"It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others."

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Source : Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

Stefan Petrucha

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“Put the Team Before Yourself.”
“The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1852). “Leigh Hunt's Works”, p.16
“I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so, because I suffered so painfully myself that I can feel the pain of others by recalling my own sufferings.”
“I chase after inspiring stories.”
“You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.”
“Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.”
“The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years”
“All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?”

Source : Anthony Horowitz (2013). “Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin”, p.126, Penguin

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