"I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man."

-- Dorothy Day

#Reading Quotes #Men Quotes #Order Quotes

“when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.”

Source : Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket
“One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.”
“Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1.”

Source : 1602 A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions Concerning Religion and State. This was an influential reworking of Ferdinand I's motto. See Ferdinand I 320:1.
“I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga.”
“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”

Source : "Written on Water". Book by Eileen Chang, trans. Andrew F. Jones New York: Columbia University Press, 2. "Writing of One's Own", pp. 17 - 18, 2005.
“I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.”
“The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.”
“I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.”

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