"In the New World, happiness is enforced."

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Source : Peter Porter (1989). “A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989”, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press

Peter Porter

“The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.”
“Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.”
“Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.”

Source : "Weather" by Eddie Mair, www.bbc.co.uk. September 22, 2006.
“One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.”
“Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.”
“If you don’t almost fail, then it wasn’t hard enough”
“It's all about mechanics; all the weight-lifting in the world can't help you if you're not running correctly.”
“It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.”

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