"Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883). “Letters and Memorials...”
“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”
“If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”

Source : Marcus Sedgwick (2009). “Ghosts and Gadgets”, p.185, Hachette UK
“When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.”
“The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the truths of religion are not shadows, but deep realities.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.116
“I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.”
“In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.”

Source : Peter Hessler (2010). “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip”, p.19, Canongate Books
“The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.”

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