"I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor."

-- Susanna Kaysen

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“That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.”
“You canâ€™t stop a revolution from breathinâ€™, so to beat â€˜em they offer people the illusion of freedom.”
“I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.”
“I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.”

Source : James F. Byrnes (1947). “Speaking Frankl.y”
“Youâ€™re not necessarily supposed to believe itâ€¦Youâ€™re just supposed to believe in it.”
“1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.”
“I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential”
“A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.”

Source : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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