"In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment."

-- Tom Shields

#Moon Quotes #Land Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.”

Source : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.51, A&C Black
“I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.”
“Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us And I donâ€™t mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. Then you can spruce up your Jewish conscience and enter the respectable club of civilised nations, nations that are large and healthy. What you lot donâ€™t understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.”
“If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.”
“So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'”
“I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.”
“One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.”
“Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act with independence to that constitution into which they are incorporated. The safety of the whole requires our joint endeavours. When this is at stake, the indifferent are not properly a part of the community; or rather are like dead limbs, which are an encumbrance to the body, instead of being of use to it.”

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