"The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den."

-- Phillip Adams

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“In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.”

Source : "Nazis in the News: 1933". www.pbs.org. March 5, 1933.
“Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.”

Source : Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”
“We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.”
“Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs”
“Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.”
“Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.”
“Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.”

Source : Rufus Choate (1883). “Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate”
“I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.”

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