"We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas."

-- Burt Prelutsky

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“God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.”
“There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.”

Source : Kenzaburo Oe (1998). “A Quiet Life”, p.96, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels”
“Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?”
“It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.”
“I think having not only personal connections with friends and family I'm able to pull from, but having a connection with so many people through social media, it also feels like I have a relationship with those people that follow me. And feel that what I'm going through, they've gone through something similar, and that's why we've connected. And they're the ones that make it into that body of work that represents them or that time in their life, because we've found each other.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.”

Source : 'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 17, ch. 16
“Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.”

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