"Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it."

-- Jeffrey Zaslow

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #Yearning Quotes

“If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards and says, "That joke offended me," I'm still more or less not going to listen, but at least it makes sense, like I said something that was about them.”
“Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.”
“We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.”
“His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.”
“Peace is freedom in tranquility.”
“Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.”
“I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.”
“But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.”

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