"They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half."

-- Otto von Bismarck

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“Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.”
“Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The opposite is true. Proverbs reveals that God does not make all peopleâ€™s decisions for them, but rather expects them to use his gift of reason to interpret the circumstances and events of life within the framework of revelation that he has given. Yet when they have exercised their responsibility in decision-making, they can look back and see that the sovereign God has guided.”
“Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I believe in permanent revolution.”
“I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.”
“No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (1987). “The haunting of Hill House”, Penguin Group USA
“The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.”

Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.89, Paulist Press
“Failure is the price of excellence.”

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