"I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact."

-- George Mikes

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“If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.”
“Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.”
“I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.”
“Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.”
“I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.”
“There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.”
“Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.”

Source : "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 3-2 Life of Faith), 1980.
“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the State, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.”

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