"Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court."

-- Christopher Buckley

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“The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a real prediction of the future, which every one has explained after his own fashion, and in which they have always found what they wanted, namely anything but that, what the book contained.”

Source : Charles François Dupuis (2016). “The Origin of all Religious Worship”, p.372, Lulu.com
“Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with deprivation of a securely encompassing community, we have sought to quell the vulnerability through our possessions.”
“If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.”
“You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.”
“When I'm running, I'm looking for contact. It's kind of weird. It brings a fire to me. When I get older I'll probably get wise and not do that.”
“AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.”
“I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.”

Source : "Pirates of the Caribbean star Ian McShane: 'Wandering in swamps could've been tough.. but if you're standing next to Penelope Cruz, it's not that difficult'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 11, 2011.
“Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.”

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