"Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves."

-- Victor Hugo

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“A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.”
“People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.”
“I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.”
“I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.”
“Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.”
“Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.”

Source : CNN interview, quoting in "Taliban-U.S. Talks ‘Very Preliminary,’ Defense Chief Says" by Catherine Larkin, www.bloomberg.com. June 19, 2011.
“Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.”
“Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.”

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