"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."

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Source : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.233

Charles Simmons

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“I've always been very aware of environment. When I was a kid I wanted to be a marine biologist until I realized I hated being underwater. I think a lot of that came from traveling and seeing the levels of waste produced by so many factories around the world.”
“There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.”
“The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.”
“When anything goes, everything goes.”
“The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.”
“And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.”
“I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now. More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.”
“There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.”

Source : Joy Williams (2010). “Taking Care”, p.210, Vintage

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