"There is no happiness without patriotism."

-- Wladyslaw Sikorski

“What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.”

Source : "The Neverending Story" by Michael End, translated by Ralph Manheim, (Ch. IV), 1983.
“I think people are wrong to do it, to compare him to your way of wanting to do it. If you're passionate about it, do it and do it your way. It's not always going to be in front of the cameras after a football game - that was the way I did it. Somebody else has a different way, and that's [James] LeBron, and I know who he is. And I can't get into specifics, but it did upset me that people were calling him out for that because they were just wrong.”

Source : "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.
“Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters and give them problem after problem after problem.”
“Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.”

Source : Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.43
“We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.”
“At the end of the day, I'm a human being.”

Source : "British rapper Tinie Tempah gets up close & personal with Serial Optimist". Interview with Rawiya Kameir, www.serialoptimist.com. December 16, 2010.
“Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.”
“I probably can't stand you, but that doesn't mean I don't love you.”

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