"The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it."

-- Diane Setterfield

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“As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.”
“Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.”
“When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.”
“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.â€ â€œWhat . . . what game?â€ â€œThe only game. The game of thrones.â€ -(Littlefinger)”

Source : George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2138, Bantam
“The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.”
“I've always been reasonably fatalistic.”
“Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.”
“I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play.”

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