"Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they donâ€™t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesnâ€™t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isnâ€™t the listener."

-- Edward Feser

#Yelling Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Complaining Quotes

“It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape.”
“Every customer interaction is a marketing opportunity. If you go above and beyond on the customer service side, people are much more likely to recommend you.”
“If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and Iâ€™d be killed. An honorable death doesnâ€™t exist. Death is death. But itâ€™s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy”
“Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.”
“The Bible is to gays what Mein Kampf is to Jews.”

Source : Peter Tatchell's lecture at St. Botolph's Aldgate in London, March 21, 2000.
“Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.”
“I have a serious investment problem. I have no money.”

Source : Melvin Helitzer (1992). “Comedy Writing Secrets”, Writers Digest Books
“I cannot sell my soul in order to participate with Nancy Pelosi or Carole Migden or any of them. I can't do it.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

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