"You've gotta be slightly stupid."

-- Joe Strummer

“We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State....”
“I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.”

Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean, Boyden Sparkes (2000). “Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean”, Turner Publishing Company
“Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.”
“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
“We have been saying, Lucy, that 'tis the strangest thing in the world people should quarrel about religion, since we undoubtedly all mean the same thing; all good minds in every religion aim at pleasing the Supreme Being; the means we take differ according to where we are born, and the prejudices we imbibe from education; a consideration which ought to inspire us with kindness and indulgence to each other.”

Source : Frances Brooke (2010). “The History of Emily Montague”, p.112, New Canadian Library
“Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.”
“Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.”

Source : "Iraqi vice president predicts return to sectarian violence" by Mohammed Tawfeeq, Frederik Pleitgen, www.cnn.com. January 30, 2012.
“When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.”

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