"It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions."

Source : Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing

Adolf Hitler

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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

Source : Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69
“My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.”
“He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.43, Granta Books
“There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didnâ€™t.”
“She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.”

Source : Caleb Carr (2010). “The Angel of Darkness”, p.155, Ballantine Books
“Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable â€¦ I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.”
“Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”
“Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”

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