"A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries"

-- Philip Bobbitt

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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
“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
“The best part about poker is there's no down side.”
“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.”
“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.
“If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.”
“Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.”
“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.”

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