"the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were."

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Source : Judith Krantz (2011). “Scruples”, p.295, Bantam

Judith Krantz

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“As everything in this world is but a sham. Death is the only sincerity.”

Source : "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.
“Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.”
“Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.”

Source : Bees in Some Bonnets (1979) p. 185
“You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.”

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“A failure to learn about Satan's plan for man here on earth would be fatal to the full exercise of free agency. The reason for this lies in the fact that . . . free agency is the opportunity to choose between good and evil. To intelligently make such a choice one must understand the alternatives-both of them. To the extent one is ignorant of these alternatives, to that same extent he has not made a complete choice. Until a person understands Satan's plan, he can never be certain he does not believe in it and is not helping to carry it out.”
“Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.”
“Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an experience.”
“I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.”

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