"An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood."

-- George Santayana

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“For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.”
“For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.”
“Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to the extent that it presented photographs of dead bodies in camps such as Buchenwald or Dauchau as dead Jewish bodies, when in fact relatively few Jewish prisoners were held there.”

Source : Richard J. Evans (2007). “Lying About Hitler”, p.261, Basic Books
“The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.”
“A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasnâ€™t. â€˜I have been in outer space many times,â€™ bragged the cosmonaut, â€˜but I have never seen any angels.â€™ The brain surgeon stared in amazement, but then he said, â€˜And I have operated on many intelligent brains, but I have never seen a single thought.”
“To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.”
“I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us”

Source : "Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.
“It's not that I like you least [...] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.”

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