"Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold."

-- William Moulton Marston

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“Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey must have been blind or wrong in the head.”

Source : "The Hot Gates". Book by William Golding, 1965.
“People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.”
“But who wants to hang aroundfrat guys ? I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place-the way Andrew does. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heart-like Andrew. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girl's outward appearance, and into her soul-like Andrew.”
“If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.136, Transaction Publishers
“Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.”

Source : Tommy Tenney (1999). “The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee”, p.65, Destiny Image Publishers
“Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.”
“Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.”
“[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”

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