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Alan D. Eames
"Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality" --
Source : Alan D. Eames (2014). “The Secret Life of Beer!: Exposed: Legends, Lore & Little-Known Facts”, p.15, Storey Publishing
Alan D. Eames
#Beer Quotes
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“So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.”
“I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.”
“I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.”
“Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord never intended this for His people. We have all seen firsthand the joyless intellectual arrogance the absence of spiritual power can produce, as well as the fanatical emotional excess that comes from the lack of theological integrity.”
“Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.”
Source : "The Sapphires". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com.
“Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.”
“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
Source : "Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600". Book by Coulson Turnbull, 1913.
“We must sacrifice something in order to make the world better.”