"It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid"

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Robert Gibbs

#Stupid Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Human Suffering Quotes

“No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.”
“I do have a very, very big problem with someone who saw me coming and exploited me as a mascot.”

Source : "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." by Andrew Billen, The Times, June 15, 2004.
“The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind.”
“I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.”
“The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.”
“Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.”

Source : David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.254, W. W. Norton & Company

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