"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."

-- Walter Benjamin

#Conviction Quotes #Leap Quotes #Strollers Quotes

“I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.”
“The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.”
“Again, mercy is literally love in action.”
“Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.”
“Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.”
“I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.”
“People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.”
“I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.”

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