"Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human."

-- Graham Harvey

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.”
“Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War”
“Itâ€™s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. Iâ€™ve stopped in Macyâ€™s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.”
“Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.”

Source : Colman McCarthy (1977). “The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf”
“Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.”
“We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have been the evil in which they engaged, at least they were willing to acknowledge the principle by which their evil was condemned. We have even turned our back on the principle.”
“But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus. ...What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.”

Source : Edgar Berman (1976). “The solid gold stethoscope”
“There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.”

Source : Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.211, Vintage Canada

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