"Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished."

-- Anthony Storr

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“Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.”
“When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.”
“Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.”
“Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.”
“The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.”
“Offer God what you have and trust Him to give you what you need.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 18, 2013
“But then the fate of shy people is that all of their fears usually come true.”

Source : Manu Joseph (2015). “The Illicit Happiness Of Other People”, p.6, HarperCollins Publishers India
“My basic thought about actors, and I would say this to my students - I love to teach, but I haven't in awhile because I've been fortunate enough to be working - that, "If this is the work you love, there is work for you. That's how the world works. That's the attitude you have to go in there with. You just have to know that it's coming."”

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