Quotes
Authors
Simon Jenkins

"Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get easier and Heathrow become the world's worst airport? The answer lies not in reality but in appearance. News editors abhor a vacuum. Half an hour of airtime and 10 pages of news must be filled each day, whatever the weather."

Source : "The state has only aided our seasonal spates of thuggery" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2007.

Simon Jenkins

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“The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.”
“We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls.”
“The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has been a cardinal point of their policy under every administration of their government from the peace of 1783 to this day...Every year's experience rivets it more deeply in the principles and opinions of the nation.”
“Who, except the poets, reads poetry?”
“The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of the biological literature. A search for keyword ''evolution'' yielded 24,000 hits in the last decade. A search for ''intelligent design'' yielded not a single piece of research. Evolution by natural selection remains the basis of every successful biological research program.”
“Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair”
“The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter.”

Source : Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.151, Tharpa Publications UK
“Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.”

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