"The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon."

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Source : "Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.

Sinclair Lewis

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“Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.”
“My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.”

Source : "For Patriotism and Profit". Interview with Robert Fisk, www.worldpress.org. July 2001.
“People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.”
“When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin.”
“Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.”
“Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.”
“Whoever will give sadaqa, his wealth will increase.”

Source : Source: irusa.org
“White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.”

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