"Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them."

-- Matthew Parris

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“As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.”

Source : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.
“We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.”
“A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.”
“The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.”
“I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.”
“We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.”

Source : "The Slain Editor Of Charlie Hebdo's Last Cartoon Is Tragically Prescient" by Pierre Bienaimé, www.businessinsider.com. January 7, 2015.
“But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.”
“We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.”

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