"Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus?"

-- Upton Sinclair

#Religious Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Children Quotes

“The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.”
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
“You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.”
“I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.”

Source : "Malin Akerman Talks ROCK OF AGES, the Stalled Linda Lovelace Movie, and Playing Debbie Harry in CBGB". Press day, collider.com. June 16, 2012.
“All through time in Apple products, even from our very first ones, that's how he [ Steve Jobs] looked at the world, that you don't really want a piece of technology, a certain type of chip. What you want is a solution to a problem in life, some cause, some issue that you want in your life that'll help you. And it's how do you make that almost one step - say it and it happens.”
“Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.”
“Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.”
“Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.”

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