"Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak."

-- Georges Bernanos

#Firsts Quotes #Appearance Quotes #Weak Quotes

“Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.”
“I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.”

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“I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.”
“I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.”
“Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to severe measures only in extreme cases, for fear lest the hardship they are already enduring in their state of captivity, joined to the strictness you might want to exercise in virtue of your authority, drive them to despair. . . . It is not light they need, but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.”
“If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.”
“Mission control, We have a UFO pacing our position, request instructions!”
“He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.”

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