"Love is the most subtle form of self-interest."

-- Holbrook Jackson

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“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”
“I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.”

Source : "Interview: U.S. Senate candidate Kesha Rogers". Interview with Brett Wilkins, www.digitaljournal.com. May 22, 2014.
“You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.”
“You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.”

Source : "Satires".
“Anybody can be ambitious.”
“In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.”

Source : Interview; as quoted in "Letters of the great artists", Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson , 1963, p. 247, 1956.
“God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.”
“[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.”

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