"I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes."

-- Jamie Hewlett

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“God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!”

Source : "American Political Rhetoric: Essential Speeches and Writings on Founding Principles and Contemporary Controversies" by Peter Augustine Lawler, The Danger Threatening Representative Government (1897), August 16, 2010.
“And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.”
“Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?”
“God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.”
“Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you'd imagined, that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing the dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of 'life'.”
“Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.”
“Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.”

Source : "General strike brings Greece to a surprisingly calm halt" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.
“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.”

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