"And my father, after all, was a nationalist."

-- Heinrich Mann

“People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.”

Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark C, p. 66, 1732.
“[I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.”
“I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.”
“God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.”

Source : Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”
“Iâ€™ve always found that the better the book Iâ€™m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.”
“This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.”
“All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.”
“It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.”

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