"Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all."

-- Vernor Vinge

#Pain Quotes #Deception Quotes #Levers Quotes

“I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly...they want monopolies, they want government subsidies, they want preferences - they're not interested in free markets.”

Source : "The West Should Fear the Growth of State Capitalism". Interview with James Quinn, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 10, 2010.
“Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken captive will never be set free (cf. Lk. 11:21-22). In every way, therefore, and especially through peace of soul, we must make ourselves a dwelling-place for the Holy Spirit.”
“Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.”
“Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.”
“All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.”
“In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.”
“I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a mix of the two. I really feel that I'm kind of every character that I've ever played; it's just a part of me. And I am a bit of a control freak like Jane. I'm very, perhaps, obsessive like that.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 5, 2011.
“I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the worldâ€™s muteness.”

Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1960). “Invitation to a beheading: a novel”, Putnam Adult

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