"I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about."

-- Andrew Motion

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“One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?”

Source : "Fictional character: Jan". "Beautiful Girls", 1996.
“Your own feelings may be reasonable or unreasonable; how can you expect others to always be reasonable? It is useful to see things in this light and thereby correct the contradictions in your expectations for yourself and others.”
“Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.”
“I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.”
“Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.”

Source : Peter Rollins (2013). “The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
“It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10”
“In most Western economies, the general relationship is not in fact between the rate of inflation and the level of unemployment, but between the rate of change of inflation and the rate of change of unemployment.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.”

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