Herbert Joseph Thompson

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    That, if I chance to hold my peace,
    These stones to praise thee may not cease.
    Oh let thy blessed sacrifice be mine,
    And sanctify this altar to be thine.
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen to them.
    Michael Caine [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933)

    Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of “the rat race” is not yet final.
    —Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)