"I like to push people till I get the truth out of them."

-- Mark E. Smith

“Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.”
“When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who encouraged me, but the ones who took very strong positions. Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don't agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it - or chuck it away if they don't want it.”
“Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.”
“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016
“We're more effective than birth control pills.”
“Love without trust. The difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul”

Source : Kay Hooper (2016). “What Dreams May Come”, p.54, Loveswept
“That girl had the subtlety of a Spencerâ€™s Gifts shop.”
“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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