"It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us."

-- Brian Aldiss

#Thinking Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Itâ€™s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasnâ€™t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When youâ€™re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.”
“I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.”
“Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.”
“The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich.”
“With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.”
“A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England”
“If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.”

Source : Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.14, Penguin
“Nobody loves a good worship service more than I do, but we are called to make religion real, to make our faith come alive. Helping others have a decent place to live is one way to do that and it doesn't take too long for others to recognize it, too.”

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