"Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke."

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Source : "Man Versus Machine" by Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn, www.newyorker.com. August 12, 2010.

David Rees

#Mean Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Make You Smile Quotes

“Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.”

Source : "Brezhnev Reconsidered". Book by Edwin Bacon, p. 99, 2002.
“Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!”
“God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post. If you walk by a fence post and see a turtle on top of it, then you know someone came by and put it there. In the same way, God gives leadership according to His good pleasure.”
“I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.”
“To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.”
“Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?”
“Have the courage to make a mistake.”
“A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (1932). “Down the garden path”, Doubleday, Doran & co., inc.

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