"I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor."

-- Bryce Courtenay

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“We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.”
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
“I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.”

Source : "Biology Major Bobby Jindal Pleads Ignorance On Evolution And Climate Science" by Joe Romm, thinkprogress.org. September 18, 2014.
“The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.198, Pan Macmillan
“Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.”
“The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.”
“I'm not jumping on the Andy Johnson for England bandwagon - I'm driving it!”

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