"In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time."

-- Alice Stewart

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“Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.”
“Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.”
“I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.”
“A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.”
“There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.”
“Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.”

Source : Friedrich Schleiermacher (1994). “On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers”, p.31, Westminster John Knox Press
“But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.”
“Walking around an early spring garden- going nowhere.”

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