"I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead."

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Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.94, Dial Press

David James Duncan

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“Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston (1939). “Moses: Man of the Mountain”
“People love to hate the gravedigger.”

Source : "Meet The Brains Behind "Bones"". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.
“I'm doing 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly.”
“I'm just a normal guy.”

Source : "Isaiah Mustafa on Advertising Celebrity, Humility and His Super Bowl Pick". Interview with Irina Slutsky, adage.com. September 22, 2010.
“I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.”

Source : "I didn't know I was writing a novel". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2005.
“And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.”
“Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).”

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