"As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right."

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Source : Gyles Brandreth (2013). “Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations”, p.199, Oxford University Press

Gyles Brandreth

#Two Quotes #People Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.”
“You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.”
“What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, "We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."”

Source : "New Mindset on Consciousness". Sunrise magazine, www.theosophy-nw.org. December 1987/January 1988.
“PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.”
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
“Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.”
“Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.”
“Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.”

Source : Harry Emerson Fosdick (2008). “Answers to Real Problems: Harry Emerson Fosdick Speaks to Our Time: Selected Sermons of Harry Emerson Fosdick”, p.32, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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