"It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics."

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Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

A. N. Wilson

#Children Quotes #Remarkable Quotes #Dictatorship Quotes

“I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?”
“If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative.”
“When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.”
“But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.”
“It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.”
“All life depends on organic reactions. A favorite saying.”
“Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state.”

Source : Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com
“As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.”

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