"Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles."

-- Alexander Pope

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“The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.”

Source : René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.2, Rutgers University Press
“Because humor brings us back to earth, it helps us to use well what is left to us even when we are keenly aware of what we have lost or been denied. Only those who know how to weep can also laugh heartily.”
“Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.”

Source : Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.51
“I see (humor) in the smallest things.”

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“I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.”
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

Source : Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.10, Random House
“America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press
“Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective.”

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