“I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.”

— Maeve Binchy

On her preference for issues that could be argued with from either side. nydailynews.com http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/popular-irish-author-maeve-binchy-dies-72-article-1.1125516?pgno=1

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Irish novelist 1940–2012

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“As a boy I had a clear image of the Almighty: He had a tail coat and pinstriped trousers, black, slicked-down hair and an aquiline nose.
On the whole, I was probably a rather strange child, and I wonder what my life might have been like if I'd met a decent theologian when I was nine.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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“Others might have found us eccentric, but I didn’t care. I had discovered my calling. I was a programmer.”

Paul Allen (1953–2018) American inventor, investor and philanthropist

Idea Man (2012)

“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Quoted by Lord Normanbrook in Action This Day: Working With Churchill. Memoirs by Lord Norman Brook (And Others) http://books.google.com/books?id=qxchAAAAMAAJ&q=%22in+the+course+of+my+life+I+have+often+had+to+eat+my+words+and+I+must+confess+that+I+have+always+found+it+a+wholesome+diet%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage (1968) <br class="br">Often misquoted as: Eating my words has never given me indigestion. http://books.google.com/books?id=vbsU21fEhLAC&q=%22Eating+my+words+has+never+given+me+indigestion%22&pg=PA486#v=onepage. <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955)

“I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

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“For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the Silent Brothers as well. I had to. They had something I needed."
"What? A sense of decency?”

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“I have often wondered why anger is considered by some Western religions to be a sin. It is such a marvelous protection against evil.”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

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“I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.”

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