"Acceptance is the spiritual hammock."

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Tim Berners-Lee

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“I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."”

Source : "An interview with Antonis Samaras, Greek prime minister, on austerity and unrest". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.washingtonpost.com. September 14, 2012.
“I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.”
“People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.”
“HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.”

Source : Peter F. Hamilton (2012). “Great North Road”, p.63, Pan Macmillan
“Iâ€™ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like”
“I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.”
“Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.”

Source : Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.
“No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.290

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