Quotes
Authors
Arthur Conan Doyle

"At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

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“A lot of actors lack confidence - even if you're doing really well, you kind of feel like this might be your last job. I enjoy the feeling of, "Maybe I've bitten off more than I can chew," and then working really, really hard and thinking, "Wow, I like that. I did that." Don't get me wrong, I'm not the kind of person who jumps out of planes and enjoys bungee jumping or anything like that, but I definitely enjoy living quite spontaneously and going with the wind.”
“God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so that if any two of them were true the third would be false. But at the same time all three are essential parts of most theological positions: the theologian it seems, at once must adhere and cannot consistently adhere to all three.”
“Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.”
“It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.”
“Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.”

Source : JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”
“Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.”
“I wake up in the morning and I feel like Iâ€™m missing something. I know that thereâ€™s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.”
“Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.”

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