“I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.”

— W. Somerset Maugham , book The Summing Up

Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 206

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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: The Coffin Club

“It doesn't matter what people thinks of you as long as you know that your heart and head are in the right place.”

Steve Kluger book Almost Like Being in Love

Source: Almost Like Being in Love

“And because I love you
I'll give it one more try
To show my rainbow race
It's too soon to die.”

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer

"My Rainbow Race" (1967)
Context: One blue sky above us
One ocean lapping all our shore
One earth so green and round
Who could ask for more
And because I love you
I'll give it one more try
To show my rainbow race
It's too soon to die.

“I'll tell you why it's not a scam, in my opinion, all right? Tide goes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication. You can't explain that.”

Bill O'Reilly (1949) American political commentator, television host and writer

2011-01-04
O'Reilly Debates Atheist Group President Over Religions Are 'Scams' Billboard
The O'Reilly Factor
Fox News
Television
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/transcript/o039reilly-debates-atheist-group-president-over-religions-are-039scams039-billboard
Bill O'Reilly Proves God's Existence - Neil deGrasse Tyson
2011-01-06
The Colbert Report
Comedy Central
Television
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/370183/january-06-2011/bill-o-reilly-proves-god-s-existence---neil-degrasse-tyson
interviewing David Silverman of American Atheists regarding the organization's Huntsville, Alabama "You Know They're All Scams" billboard

“[About his legacy:] I'll be all right so long as it has been written on some corner of a human heart. On the heart, it doesn't matter how you spell it.”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

Quoted by Ron Grossman, "Nelson Algren's Chicago" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-nelson-algren-flashback-chicago-authors-perspec-0326-jm-20170324-story.html, The Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2017.
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