"Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them."

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Source : Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.1878, Bantam

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“[O]pen platforms and experimental amateurs ... eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. ... Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.”
“There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.”
“Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.”

Source : John Armstrong, John Aikin (1804). “The Art of Preserving Health”, p.143
“As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.”
“I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.”
“I don't think talent has anything to do with inspiration. Inspiration creates talent. People prioritize innate talent too much. It gives them license to walk around and act like assholes. I think I straddle a line between being innately talented and having had to put in some work. You ever go to a party where there are a lot of creative people and they feel like they have license to just act any kind of way? I'm not really a moral person myself, but they just tend to never ever be sincere because they believe their art or the fact that they are artists makes them holy in some way.”
“An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.”

Source : John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.4, Harvard University Press
“Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.”

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