"Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing."

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Source : Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

Alexander Theroux

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“The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians”

Source : "Tanzania touts Middle East peace". Daily News (dailynews.co.tz), November 30, 2010.
“It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.”

Source : "Three types of online attack (About the speaker)". TEDxBrussels Talk, www.ted.com. November 2011.
“Gun sales have spiked every time Democrats win elections since 1980.”

Source : Interview With Dan Mistich, medium.com. September 25, 2016.
“I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.”
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.”
“What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?”
“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”

Source : John Owen (1842). “The Mortification of Sin in Believers: Containing the Necessity, Nature and Means of It; with a Resolution of Sundry Cases of Conscience Thereto Belonging”, p.9

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