"Great ideas are not charitable."

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Source : Henry de Montherlant (1951). “The Master of Santiago: And Four Other Plays”, New York : A. A. Knopf

Henry de Montherlant

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“I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.”
“Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.”
“Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”
“Here comes Santa Claus! Here comes Santa Claus! Right down Santa Claus Lane!”

Source : Song: Here Comes Santa Claus v2
“We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,”

Source : "How reliable is your memory?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
“I feel much more emotion than I did before, and more meaningful emotion and richer emotion than when I was manic. I'm able to experience meaningful things that can only be experienced when I'm stable, like a family.”
“Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.”
“The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.”

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