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“It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.”
Source : Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books
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“I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'”
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“I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.”
Source : "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015. 
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“The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.”
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“Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.”
Source : Mariano Azuela (1956). “Two Novels of Mexico: The Flies. The Bosses”, p.110, Univ of California Press
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“Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.”
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“I want to be clear that when you mention the Republican critique of President Obama, that is not President-elect Trump's critique, right? So you have a real clash within the Republican Party, and I think within the Trump administration, about how to develop policy toward Russia.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“No one has ever drowned in sweat.”
