“I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.”

MTV.com Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery

Larocca, Amy (2005). "Marc Jacobs' Paradoxial Triumph" http://www.nymag.com/nymetro/shopping/fashion/12544/ NYMag.com (accessed April 19, 2007)

Commencement address, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (11 June 1962) http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3370 <br class="br">1962 <br class="br">Context: The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)

[Baqir Shareef al-Qurashi, Abdullah al-Shahin, The Life of Imam Hasan al-'Askari, Wonderful short maxims, 2005]
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Jeremiah http://www.pbs.org/video/alabama-public-television-documentaries-jeremiah/ (2015) 34:07.

S. Dyde, trans. (1896), § 191
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820/1821)

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