"In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given."

-- Desmond Tutu

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“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”
“There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things happen, they almost seem to happen on a Shakespearian stage with the audience so close they can become actors too. This is partly what Joseph Brodsky meant when he wrote that small countries have big politics.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.”
“Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception.”
“Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.”
“I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.”
“The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.”

Source : "While we have your attention, Mr President". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2003.
“If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.”

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