"When you get there, there isn't any there there."

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Gertrude Stein

“It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.”
“When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.”
“That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.”

Source : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
“It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.”
“We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture than the stuff we want to call "too weird" because of our own intellectual sensibilities. The truth is they are not. So we come up with interpretations to eliminate the weirdness of the biblical worldview that makes us uncomfortable. Problem solved!”
“To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.”

Source : William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.317
“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.”
“I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans 45 years. I had a great desire to make another musical, but this time I wanted to be more ambitious.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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