"We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years."

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Source : Interview, 1982.

Edward Heath

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“Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.”

Source : Gary Paulsen (2001). “Brian's Winter”, p.14, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love the impurity you started with. Can any being seriously think that he is going to pass through the infinity of time without ever making another mistake? Quite often a flash of enlightenment will give you this message: Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.”

Source : Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.84, Gibbs Smith
“I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.”
“Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why Iâ€™m more inclined to say, 'Donâ€™t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.'”
“If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.”

Source : "Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High" by Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2011.
“I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.”
“In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.”

Source : Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1766). “Letters, Written by the Late Jonathan Swift ... and Several of His Friends: From the Year 1703-to 1740. Published from the Originals; with Notes Explanatory and Historical”, p.117

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