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Iain Pears

"When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters."

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.321, Penguin

Iain Pears

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“When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'”

Source : Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.26, Penguin
“The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.”
“I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.”
“Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.”
“I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.”
“When I'm approached by brands I use the kind of philosophy - I don't really get into a project unless I feel I can make something that will be honest for me.”
“God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or do so that we can be saved. Rather, it's about seeing what is already true Â– that God loves us already Â– and then beginning to live in this relationship. It is about becoming conscious of and intentional about a deepening relationship with God.”
“If you have time-release pills, you could have time-release expanding cheesecakes.”

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