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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief – call it what you will – than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

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Thieves must sit in prison.

I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

We get so obsessed with our body, but when you have cancer, you forget your mind and your soul and your relationships are all affected. We will continue to build on and create more resources on topics like, 'How do you talk about cancer?'

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