"I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east."

-- Xuanzang

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“Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.”
“Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.”

Source : "The Lure of Gold: PW Talks with Howard Blum". Interview with Amy Meng, www.publishersweekly.com. February 21, 2011.
“Family is a difficult matter. I must admit I do not know that the state can intervene successfully in a family. It's a fact that everything is connected with the individualist temperament, the kind of economic environment which stresses the individual, but this is not directly the result of a state policy, nor do I see any good way by which the state could intervene except in some marginal ways.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans.”

Source : "Lawmakers, health professionals blast entertainment industry for marketing adult material to children" By Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2000.
“If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.”
“If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.”
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“The things we worry about the most are the hints we trust God with the least.”

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