"Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal."

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

#Cat Quotes #Animal Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.”
“Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they're saving children.”

Source : "US conservative activists want more countries to emulate Russia's anti-gay laws", www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2014.
“Concert' doesnâ€™t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.”
“If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.”
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”

Source : Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, delivered 26 August 2002, Nashville, Tennessee
“Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.”
“All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.”

Source : Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”

Source : Zedong Mao (2007). “On Practice and Contradiction”, Verso Books

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