"We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?"

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Athenagoras of Athens

#People Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Looks Quotes

“She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.”
“I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.”

Source : "John Legend: 'I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom'". Interview with Denise Cheong and Charlene Fang, travel.cnn.com. March 9, 2011.
“After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.”
“The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.”
“More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.”
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”
“No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.”
“A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.”

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