"A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right ."

-- William E. Gladstone

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“This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.”
“Squirrel brains make you smart.”
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”
“Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money. There are also so many emotional aspects to money - feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.”
“I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.”
“It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.”

Source : "The Houses in Between".
“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.”

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