"Christianity is a myth that has been literalised."

-- Timothy Freke

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“Oh, do you want protectionism? No, I don't. I just don't want to give my country away to China.”
“The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.”
“People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,â€ Will said. â€œThere are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.”
“Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.”

Source : "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.
“It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression. It is like childbirth. The poet has nothing to be proud of. He is not master of the situation, but a servant. Creative work is his only possible form of existence, and his every work is like a deed he has no power to annul. For him to be aware that the sequence of such deeds is due and ripe, that it lies in the very nature of things, he has to have faith in the idea; for only faith interlocks the system of images for which read system of life.”
“I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.”
“It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.”

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