"WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THATâ€™S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER."

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Source : "On Abortion, Rape, and Humor" by Amanda Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2009.

Amanda Palmer

#Darkness Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.”
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”
“Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another legacy of the 1968 generation, which I happen to belong to myself. In fact, it would be better if we just presented the facts and scenarios dispassionately - and then society can decide for itself what it wants to do to influence climate change.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I dont really believe in regrets.”
“Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.”

Source : The Guardian (Paris) Interview, November 6, 1978.
“We will finish the race.”
“I’m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after I retired, that I have neurological damage. I try to manage it. I know what can trigger headaches and try to avoid it. I have short term memory problems, so I make a special effort to remember people and names. I have to work harder, but it’s important.”
“It's hard to stay flexible if you don't stretch. I think if you train the right way you'll be flexible. There are people that don't appreciate the value of stretching. I think it's very important.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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