"Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodyâ€™s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Glasses Quotes #World Quotes #Faces Quotes

“My library is filled with UN condemnations.”

Source : Speech, December 26, 1986.
“Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.”
“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.”
“If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.”
“A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.”
“As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.”

Source : "Gisele: Supermodel Muse" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 11, 2009.
“Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.”

Source : "Afghan leader to U.S.: 'Stay with us'" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2003.
“I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.”

Source : Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.10, Harper Collins

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