"Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious."

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Source : "The Hidden Stream". Book by Ronald Knox, p. 105, 1952.

Ronald Knox

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“I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.”
“This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the most learned and cultured poets, authors, musicians, and architects of the time - relying solely on his remarkable memory during conversations with them.”

Source : Indu Sundaresan (2012). “The Twentieth Wife”, p.131, HarperCollins Publishers India
“Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?”
“God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.”
“I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.”
“Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.”

Source : Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609
“Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.”
“My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...”

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