"You have to know how to go against the trend of the times."

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Source : "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

Eric Rohmer

“It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.”
“The witness of the Holy Ghost is even more compelling than the witness of sight. As members of the Church, we become witnesses of the Savior and the truthfulness of this work not only in word but also in keeping our covenants and in how we treat others and in how we live our everyday lives.”
“If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.”
“One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.”
“We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.”

Source : New York Times, April 14, 1983.
“Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation. Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others.”
“You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.”

Source : Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.22, Penguin
“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”

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