"A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world"

-- Tony Benn

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“It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.”
“Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.”
“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”
“Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.”
“[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.”
“I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.”
“Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?”
“Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.”

Source : Linda Lael Miller (2011). “Creed's Honor”, p.199, HQN Books

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