"I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delight, to be in turns the object and the victor of her remorse! Far be it from me to destroy the prejudices which sway her mind! They will add to my happiness and my triumph. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms."

-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

#Husband Quotes #Believe Quotes #Fall Quotes

“When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.”
“The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.”

Source : "Competitive Strategy Research's Impact on Practice". Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, 2012.
“The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”

Source : Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.695, Ballantine Books
“The faster we go, the slower we need to be.”
“I'm not honestly a real student of animation. I never was into it all that much. I don't really watch any animated shows.”
“My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.”
“Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.”
“Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.”

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