"The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible."

-- Paulo Coelho

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“The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.”
“My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really bad neighborhoods by myself, routinely, and hang out. Sometimes I still do, because I don't want to attract attention. But lately, I've been riding with cops and gaining access to other types of law, like the ATF guys, just because of my name. I guess it's a smarter way to work.”
“I don't know if I could write ten easy ways to connect with an audience. I know you have to believe in what you're doing, you have to believe in your music, believe in your ability, believe that what you're doing is honest and true and real.”
“Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.”
“Love is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace in each one of us.”
“It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.”
“Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.”

Source : Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee
“Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.”

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