"Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral."

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Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

Siegfried Sassoon

#Struggle Quotes #Odds Quotes #Funeral Quotes

“For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.”
“Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three hundred kids at every assembly. And it feels really good. It's really fun.”

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“Fears and lies intensify consciousness.”
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
“Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.”
“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
“I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.”
“I have not been a success, and probably never will be.”

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