"Treat a child like a witch and you’ll have one."

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“As every minister knows, a prayer is a superb device for airing an opinion.”

“Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.”

“Yes, he had been loyal to his friends, but even a wolf is loyal to other wolves.”

“If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?”

“It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.”

“Technicalities are, however, of more interest to historians than to contemporaries.”

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"To be clear, I will not be on stage campaigning with the President."

— Sean Hannity

Politics1961

#humor

"Everybody's so busy wanting to be down with the gang. "I'm conservative", "I'm liberal", "I'm conservative". Bullshit! Be a fucking person! Lis-ten! Let it swirl around your head. Then form your opini…"

— Chris Rock

Entertainment1965

#humor

"If we would indicate an idea which, throughout the whole course of history, has ever more and more widely extended its empire, or which, more than any other, testifies to the much-contested and still …"

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Philosophy1767–1835

#Human Nature

"Aquinas and Augustus of Hippo both proposed this extraordinary idea that babies who were unbaptised would not know heaven. They also proposed the idea of purgatory which doesn’t exist in The Bible. Th…"

— Stephen Fry

Entertainment1957

#religion