"The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need."

-- Robertson Davies

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“Will the future bring your wisdom to me? Or will darkness rule the kingdom for all eternity? You will live in my heartâ€¦ I will still remember even though we are apart. I will feel you there for me As I walk the road of life You help me fight for what is right I will honour thy name”
“The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.”
“Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny.”
“Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours.”
“Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them against Islamic laws. Irans Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass destruction weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we support the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]”
“Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.”
“A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person.”

Source : "Whoops! It's Christmas". "The Abbott Christmas Book". Book edited by Herbert W. Luthin, 1960.
“In my day we used to have pray to run into an ex looking great, but now you just post a selfie in your underwear.”

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