"She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth."

-- Mary Webb

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.”

Source : David Limbaugh (2015). “David Limbaugh: The Conservative Word”, p.178, Creators Publishing
“I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.”
“We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?”
“Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?”
“As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.”
“[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.”
“Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.”
“We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.”

Source : "Shirin 'Ebadi - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Interview to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, www.memri.org. October 24, 2003.

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