"I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs."

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Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

Diane Abbott

#Christmas Quotes #Dog Quotes #Morbid Quotes

“I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.”
“A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.”

Source : Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.34, Cambridge University Press
“We need to never consider ourselves as having 'arrived'; always trying to learn how we can change to be more like Christ”
“Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.”
“The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.”
“Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.”

Source : Annie Proulx (2011). “Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place”, p.190, Simon and Schuster
“Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.”

Source : Bernard Berenson, Umberto Morra Di Lavriano (1963). “Colloqui con Berenson”
“What enables me to believe in anything is hope.”

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