"Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it."

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James Huneker

#Summer Quotes #July Quotes #Life Sucks Quotes

“My goal ... not to go back to Rembrandt ... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.”
“We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

Source : "The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.
“No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.”
“I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.”
“I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.”
“Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day.”

Source : "FBI Director Faces Congress Over Hillary Clinton Email Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Carrie Johnson, www.npr.org. July 7, 2016.
“God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit.”

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