"We invent what we love and what we fear."

--

John Irving

“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.”
“Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.”
“If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.”

Source : "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". Interview with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.
“I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.”

Source : Source: www.indiawest.com
“Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.”
“Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.”

Source : "Bilbie v. Lumley and Others 102 ER 448". English case (2 East, 469), June 28, 1802.
“My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.19, Scholastic Inc.
“Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.”

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