"We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises."

-- Pawel Pawlikowski

#Silence Quotes #Needs Quotes #Withdrawal Quotes

“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
“The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.”
“My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.”
“The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.”
“I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.”
“Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.”

Source : "Stop Stealing From Our Kids" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.
“All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.”
“[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.”

Source : Usenet article "Perl and XEmacs", groups.google.com. August 16, 1997.

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