"i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence."

-- Ayn Rand

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“It is not a woman I want - it is all women.”

Source : "The Inferno". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1917.
“You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!”
“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.”
“Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.”
“Fame hurt. People thought I was a sellout chef and stopped coming to my restaurant.”
“The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course in the United States... In that same spirit, we must have the courage - and teach our students the courage - to be bearers to the world of this transforming love, co-creators of a more deeply human world, collaborators with Christ in the building of God's Kingdom.”
“The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.”

Source : Junichiro Tanizaki (1957). “The Makioka Sisters”
“I learn something all the time - rearranging what I thought I knew before.”

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