"Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense."

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Source : Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

Calvin Trillin

#Giving Quotes #Vampire Quotes #Defense Quotes

“I think we are in this era right now where every element in a webpage is rendered to within an inch of its life. I think if it's a button, it looks like a physical button, you know, if it's a mailbox that's meant to signal a messaging functionality then the whole mailbox right down to the rivets on the hypothetical metallic housing is rendered.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“The most fun I've had on 'Burn Notice,' I think it would have to be working with China Chow and Lucy Lawless.”
“Morality is a private and costly luxury.”

Source : 'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 22
“I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.”

Source : Walter Hilton (1957). “The Ladder of Perfection”
“The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.”
“You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the moment it stands for a complex mix of multiculturalism and financial power. Interestingly, that is a political mix of progressive and oppressive. What I'm arguing is simply that we should take responsibility for the effects of 'our place' around the world. To take responsibility for our embeddedness. If you don't want to, so be it. It does demand an imaginative engagement with our planetary interdependence and that can be quite challenging.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.”

Source : Geoffrey Wood (2011). “Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero”, WaterBrook
“We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah, Samuel Obeng (1997). “Selected speeches of Kwame Nkrumah”, Afram Pubns Ghana Ltd

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