"...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal."

-- Tove Jansson

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“True religion is the realization of truth.”
“Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.”
“We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.”

Source : "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.
“Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.”
“Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.”
“People are secretive when they have secrets.”

Source : Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
“There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.”
“So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalising effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.”

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