"Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since."

-- George Foreman

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“The Constitution enjoins an oath upon all the officers of the United States. This is a direct appeal to that God Who is the avenger of perjury. Such an appeal to Him is a full acknowledgement of His being and providence.”
“The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might as well look you up this morning.”

Source : "Independent People" by Halldór Laxness, translated by J. A. Thompson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Two), 1997.
“But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.”
“God is not pleased by blood â€“ and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death...”
“Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.”

Source : Source: popculturezoo.com
“If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.”
“I'm very proud of my breasts, as every woman should be. It's not cellular obesity. It's womanliness.”

Source : "Philip French's screen legends" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2010.

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