"Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any."

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Source : John (of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres) (1963). “The statesman's book of John of Salisbury: being the fourth, fifth, and sixth books, and selections from the seventh and eighth books, of the Policraticus”

John of Salisbury

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“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

Source : Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
“Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
“You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.”
“Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.”
“If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.”
“NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.73, Macmillan
“I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.”
“When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.”

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