"War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet."

-- Alice Walker

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“To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.”
“If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I have learned to enjoy the ups for what they are, because those are the moments that feel like they go by the quickest.”
“As good marketers, we like to tinker with things and make them better.”
“The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.”
“Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.”
“Only the paranoid survive.”
“Have I today done anything to fulfill the purpose for which Thou didst cause me to be born?”

Source : John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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