"When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker."

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Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

#Men Quotes #Church Quotes #Snickers Quotes

“The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesnâ€™t get much better than this.”
“The fastest way to your own happiness is to make another happy.”
“We're the first generation that doesn't need to be afraid of the media. We will become the media”
“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”
“I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.”
“In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.”
“Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.”
“I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.”

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