"I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost."

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Source : Charles PHILLIPS (One of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors'Court.), John Philpot CURRAN (Right Hon.) (1850). “Recollections of Curran, and some of his contemporaries ... Second edition”, p.245

John Philpot Curran

#Ghost Quotes #Not Afraid Quotes #Murderer Quotes

“Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.”
“A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard”

Source : Kate Burridge, Jean Gail Mulder (1999). “English in Australia and New Zealand: an introduction to its history, structure and use”
“For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.”
“Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.”
“Man only honors what he conquers or defends.”
“In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.”
“I wanted to act, dance and perform more than anything, and I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.”
“Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.”

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