"Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God."

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Source : "History of the Church: Volume 3: The Revolt Against The Church: Aquinas To Luther". Book by Philip Hughes, p. 493, 1979.

Girolamo Savonarola

“He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it”
“I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when itâ€™s appropriate, for effect (...) â€˜You cocksucker.â€™ I love that kind of language.”
“It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.”

Source : "Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“Every day I go out and climb, like a dancer who works on his dance. He probably has some goals, some pieces he would like to perform, but his main goal is to work on his dance. This is how he expresses himself. Both he and I are interested in the same thing. Itâ€™s the dance that counts.”
“Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.”
“In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.”
“â€ŽA general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.”
“I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.”

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