Margaret Meagher famous quotes

Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.
-- Margaret Meagher

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition...

We went to Austria to train and it was so peaceful. And I love coffee and the coffee was great.

There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.