Quotes
Authors
Pierre Bayle

"So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he is quickening a false devotion almost all over the world, increasing the number of pilgrims to Mecca, multiplying the offerings to the most famous impostors, inducing men to build mosques for Mohammedan worship, causing the invention of new superstitions among the dervishes - in a word, stimulating many abominable things which otherwise might not have been."

-- Pierre Bayle

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“Now that I'm a pez and a LEGO I don't really want for any more...”
“In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 25, 2018
“Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.”
“It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.”

Source : "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.
“Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.”
“Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.”
“We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.”
“I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.”

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