"I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do?"

-- Ronnie Shakes

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“If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.”
“I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting them in heaven, how much soever they had injured me on earth: had no disposition to insist upon any confession from them, in order to reconciliation, and the exercise of love and kindness to them. Oh! it is an emblem of heaven itself, to love all the world with a love of kindness, forgiveness, and benevolence...”
“We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.”
“Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.”
“There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.”
“There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.”
“Mundus vult decipi'â€”the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?”
“It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.”

Source : "George III" by John Brooke, Panther, (pp. 363-364), 1974.

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