"Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it."

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Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition”, p.6, Princeton University Press

Jacob Grimm

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“I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.”
“I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.”
“Being the governor of a state is a more pivotal job in the future. I do indeed hope there's someone that says, "I'm going to go to Washington, try to get back to our constitutional roots, devolve the centralization of government back to the states." So why would you want to be up there if the action is down here in the states?”
“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
“I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.”
“What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?”
“But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.”
“My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling these agencies we often don't know where some ideas are going to lead, but we hope they are going to clarify a problem.”

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