"[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats."

-- Caitlin Thomas

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“we are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story....”
“We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.”

Source : François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.24, Gallic Books
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is revealed truth, the other is scientific truth. If you really believe that creation is good, there can be no harm in studying science. The more we learn about creation - the way it emerged - it just adds to the glory of God. Personally, I've never seen a conflict.”
“Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.”

Source : Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. July 14, 2006.
“I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.”
“Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.”
“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more”

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