"Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines."

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Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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“I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.”
“It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.”

Source : "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
“God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.”
“I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.”
“If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.”
“She hasn't run faster than herself before”
“I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?”

Source : Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1979). “The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education”
“Royce nodded. â€œInvest in crossbows. Next time stay hidden and just put a couple bolts into each of your targetâ€™s chests. All this talking is just stupid.â€ â€œRoyce!â€ Hadrian admonished. â€œWhat? Youâ€™re always saying I should be nicer to people. Iâ€™m trying to be helpful.”

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