"I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws."

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Source : "Fictional character: Captain Nemo". "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", www.imdb.com. 1954.

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“My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.”
“The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.”
“Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.”
“My hometown is 30,000 people. It's remote, but it's an oil town, so it's developed. There's definitely a mill mentality: not a lot of people leave. It's a lot of long hours, shift work. Even my Dad, who's a dentist worked hard, because that's what people do up there.”
“I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.”
“I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.28, Anchor
“Do your homework and stand your ground.”

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