"It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine."

-- John Stuart Mill

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“It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.”
“The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.”
“And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised...”
“The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.”
“I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.”
“I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.”
“When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.”

Source : David Einhorn (2010). “Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue”, p.27, John Wiley & Sons

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