"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."

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Harry Houdini

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“This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)”
“The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.”

Source : Erle Stanley Gardner (1983). “Pay Dirt: And Other Whispering Sands Stories of Gold Fever and the Western Desert”, William Morrow & Company
“Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2015). “Twenty Wishes”, p.340, MIRA
“The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ... Its extremity gradually expands and after gathering a colliquamentous ichor becomes analogous to an amnion. ... In the course of time the seed or fetus begins to become visible.”
“Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.”

Source : Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (1999). “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”, p.90, Addison-Wesley Professional
“The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors. ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.”
“The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.”
“Shareholder value is a result, not a strategyâ€‰.â€‰.â€‰.â€‰Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.”

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