"If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road."

-- Francis Quarles

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“Secrecy is the foundation of politics.”
“Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.”
“And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.”
“Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.”
“I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.”
“In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.”
“I like money, but I want status.”

Source : "Lance Stephenson Opens Up: Hornets Fallout, Clippers Future and Big Contracts". Interview with Jared Zwerling, bleacherreport.com.
“When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.”

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