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It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things. Terry Prachett
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "the shell must break before the bird can fly."
the shell must break before the bird can fly. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Most men will not swim before they are able to.” Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they wont think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what’s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown. Herman Hesse
Brigitte Bardot quote: "I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures......"
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day. Brigitte Bardot
Marianne Williamson quote: "And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves."
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves. Marianne Williamson
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine. Jeremy Taylor
Martin O'Malley quote: "We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession...."
We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward. Martin O'Malley
Muhammad Ali quote: "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand...."
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Muhammad Ali
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. Bill Gates
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. Dean Inge
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. E. M. Forster
George Carey quote: "I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ..."
I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges. George Carey
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Anthony Burgess
Hamid Karzai quote: "Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all..."
Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them. Hamid Karzai
Mark Twain quote: "Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs..."
Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million. Mark Twain