"You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.' This was all said cheerfully. 'How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons."

-- Bernard Cornwell

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“There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry.”
“My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women”
“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isnâ€™t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?”
“Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.”
“Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.”
“You should have left him to wander,â€ Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised. â€œWould you?â€ he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the end, Toshak had fought well and that counted for a lot of Skandians. â€œNo,â€ he admitted.”
“It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.”
“I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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