"I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it."

-- Jacques Barzun

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“I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war.”
“Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.”

Source : Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.36, Jewish Lights Publishing
“But I never want to not create something because I'm afraid of what it might say.”
“Our duty as Latter-day Saints is to prepare ourselves, this earth, and its inhabitants for the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Being prepared and being strong as the gospel teaches ensure happiness here and hereafter and make this 'grand millennial mission' possible.”
“Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world. We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal. I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.”
“Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.”
“He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.”
“Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.”

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