"One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man."

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Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

William Winwood Reade

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“Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me”
“Balls in general are not a good looking item.”
“Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.”
“Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.”
“A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.”
“The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.”
“How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!”

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