"The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children."

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Source : William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.274

William Godwin

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“If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.”
“I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.”
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”
“I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."”

Source : Source: www.scholastic.com
“We have to walk slowly and carefully because we are in a hurry.”
“To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the FÃ¼hrer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution. Although both courses of action emigration and evacuation, must, of course, be considered as nothing more than... temporary expedients, they do help to provide practical experience which should be of great importance in view of the coming EndlÃ¶sung (Final Solution) of the Jewish question.”

Source : Speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin, on January 20, 1942. "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken: The "Final Solution". Book by A. J. Mayer, p. 304, 1990.
“Either an executive can do his job or he can't.”
“Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.”

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