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“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
Source : Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin
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“After all, I want to make sure I stick with his original vision. So far, [Steven King] comments have always been the same - run with it!”
Source : Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com
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“The best part about poker is there's no down side.”
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“If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”
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“They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the religious traditions or interpreted them!”
Source : "Studies in Islamic Poetry (The Meditations of Al-Ma'arri)". Book by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, 1921.
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“If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.”
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“Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.”
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“This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.”