"I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it."

-- Arundhati Roy

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“As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.”
“Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.”
“Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster
“I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.”
“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: â€œIâ€™ll do as I please at everybody elseâ€™s expense.â€ An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of manâ€”his own and those of others.”
“I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.”

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