"Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected."

-- Robert Orben

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“Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.”
“I am a coach who thinks always in the long term.”

Source : "Louis van Gaal Q&A: Manchester United boss in boisterous first in-depth interview since taking charge". Interview With David McDonnell, www.mirror.co.uk. July 29, 2014.
“I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked. It's supposed to make you feel something.”
“I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”

Source : "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.
“Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.”
“The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.”
“The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.”

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