"A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time."

-- John Ralston Saul

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“Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.”
“Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.”
“The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.”
“If youâ€™re following God and havenâ€™t lost much of what youâ€™ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.”
“Sizeism = like racism, only against people who aren't a size two or four.”
“I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I can find a story that has a raison d'etre behind it that I feel is important then that's the best for me.”

Source : "Denzel Washington and Norman Jewison - part two". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.
“A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.”
“Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.”

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