"Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Paul Kingsnorth

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“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
“One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.”
“We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary”

Source : Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.167
“There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.”
“The Middle East is America's 'champagne room'. No matter how much you spend, you will still never get what you want.”
“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”
“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”
“Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.”

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