"We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation."

-- Bernard Cornwell

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“For me, life without murder is like a life without food. I was the father of these people, since it was I who opened the door for them to another world.”
“The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, â€œThis is love.â€ God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, â€œThis is love.”

Source : Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.71, Multnomah
“I listened to my first comedy album in 6th grade. It was Bill Cosby. My brother and I would play it over and over on a Fisher Price record player. A friend in high school also introduced me to Richard Pryor. I wasn't writing material back then, but I would say funny stuff. I was good at making fun of people's moms. If I knew something personal about you, it would be used against you.”
“The Infinate has sowed His name in the heavens in burning stars, but on earth He has sowed His name in tender flowers.”
“We did start with a simple manifesto, as we called it, which was a description of what we were about, and it was the Un-carrier. It was about finding and solving customer pain points in an attempt to fix a stupid, broken, arrogant industry. It was something we felt passionate about. It was our goal to make changes and have the industry make the same ones.”
“life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis”
“We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently ...”
“I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.”

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