"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

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Source : Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

Thomas Mann

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“It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will want to emulate us and pass on our ideas, manners, and lifestyle to future generations. This is more than enough motivation for me to do good things in my life and teach my children to do the same.”
“Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare.”
“My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.”
“If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it”
“The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.”
“The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.”
“The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.”
“Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.”

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