"A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Sorry Quotes #Wedding Anniversary Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.”

Source : "Global Peace Lovers". Book by Aasef Shafik, 2008.
“Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.”
“...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.”
“About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It's a big responsibility.”
“The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.”
“...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy”
“Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.”
“Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.”

Source : Hinton Rowan Helper (1860). “The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it”, p.436

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