"In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!”

Source : "Valedictory". The last issue of "The Liberator" newspaper, fair-use.org. January 01, 1866.
“The bigger your mission becomes, the greater inspiration you will be given.”
“If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.”
“One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.”
“Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a lie but tells anyway. I love that. Of course every story I tell is true. Completely true. Completely and utterly at least five-eighths of the way to being true, which is truer than any piece of lore and truer than most truths you'll hear.”
“The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.”
“There's no point in clinging to illusions.”

Source : Eva Heller (1992). “With the next man everything will be different”, Random House Inc
“I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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