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“United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.”
Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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“The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour.”
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“Palestinian society is filled with poetry, but not experimental poetry. The Palestinian poetry that people know is not the modernist experimentations, it's certain kinds of poetry that lends itself to recitation and song and things like that.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ of assistance, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege.”
Source : Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2
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“Hopefully we can come together without tragedy making us do this. Because ultimately underneath it all, at the risk of sounding cliché, we have so much more in common than we do different. When someone loves someone we should celebrate that and be happy for the people in love. That's the goal. We're all here because we want to be loved and love someone else.”
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“The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.”
Source : Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.96, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.”
Source : Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub
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“Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture .”
Source : John Stott (2014). “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.44, SPCK
