"The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#People Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Tyranny Quotes

“I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.”
“I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.”
“Going to a women's college made a big difference. It gave me the sense women could run things... and I just never thought that it made sense to give that up.”
“There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.”
“I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.”
“I want to see my party achieve victory based on what we have to offer this country and our ability to offer it with integrity. I don't want to see us achieve victory based on the fact that we are better at rigging the game than other people.”
“Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.”

Source : Mia Couto, David Brookshaw (2006). “Sleepwalking Land”, p.39, Profile Books
“Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.”

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