"I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#People Quotes #Communist Quotes #Traitor Quotes

“You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry”
“There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.”
“I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.”
“She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course." he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.”
“There's no regimen. There's no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it's an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don't necessarily like being at the gym.”
“Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.”
“It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again.”
“The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.”

Source : "Dominc Lawson: Pessimism is Brown's enemy on Europe". www.independent.co.uk. October 16, 2007.

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