"The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life."

-- James P. Hogan

#Religious Quotes #Support Quotes #Might Quotes

“When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.”
“What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.”

Source : "Panetta and Petraeus" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.
“Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.”
“I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.”
“I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.”

Source : "Vince Flynn Talks 'The Last Man,' His Newest Mitch Rapp Best-Seller (Q&A)". Interview With Andy Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2012.
“I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.”
“I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.”
“You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.”

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