"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

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Source : Cosmopolitan, Oct. 1906

Upton Sinclair

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“When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.”
“It's best to give while your hand is still warm.”

Source : Philip Roth (2006). “Everyman”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I love playing females that are put into these pressure-cooker situations, but they're real. I didn't want to be this kind of Lara Croft superwoman.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.”
“Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.”

Source : On Active Service in Peace and War ch. 7 (1948). Stimson was explaining his action, while secretary of state in 1929, in closing the State Department's codebreaking office. The 1948 book, coauthored with McGeorge Bundy, is the earliest known appearance of this quotation. Louis Kruh, in his article "Stimson, the Black Chamber, and the 'Gentleman's Mail Quote," Cryptologia, Apr. 1988, concludes that these words accurately represented Stimson's feelings in 1929 but that "whether he also said it the
“By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy, you are learning to take control of your destiny.”

Source : Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.205, Hampton Roads Publishing
“After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood. The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.”

Source : "Holocaust Hero Turns 97" by Jim Sciutto, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2007.

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