"It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing."

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Source : "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham, (Ch. 68), 1915.

Eleanor Farjeon

#Laughter Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Evil Quotes

“What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.”
“Foreign policy commands attention when it's crisis management. A street revolt breaks out in Egypt or Libya or Kiev and everyone asks, how should the president respond? Now these are important parts of America's role in the world, but they are essentially reactive and tactical. The broader challenge is to lay down a longer-term strategy that endures after the crisis of the moment.”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
“It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 10, 2009.
“Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.”
“What seems over your head is always under His feet.”
“The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time, who is in many ways humiliated and oppressed, and to orientate in a Christian way cultural, social, and ethical transformations that are unfolding in the world.”
“If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.”

Source : "Journalists must stop being in denial: bloggers are here to stay" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2005.

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