"But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."

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Source : "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

Polly Toynbee

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“Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.”

Source : Olav H. Hauge (1987). “Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge”
“The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.”
“There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.”

Source : "Director Mike Mills Exclusive Interview BEGINNERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2011.
“You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.104, Transaction Publishers
“For Christmas when I was about four I got given 'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks "Ego is not a Dirty Word.... I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief.”
“I usually never, ever get nervous before a regular show. But a TV show? I'm always nervous because you know you gotta nail that song.”
“Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!”

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