"Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit."

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Source : "Rhino Records" Online Chat, June 17, 1997.

Tom Lehrer

#Irreverence Quotes #Easy Quotes #Wit Quotes

“What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.”
“There are so many women out there who are single moms, really not by choice, and doing it and making it work every day. I think it's becoming much more a part of our culture and I hope that it will become more accepted and that those women are going to be more and more appreciated, respected and supported.”

Source : "Sheryl Swoopes' finishing move". Interview with Adena Andrews, www.espn.com. June 20, 2011.
“I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'”
“A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.”

Source : Diosdado Macapagal (1968). “A Stone for the Edifice: Memoirs of a President”
“...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.”
“Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.”
“President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.”
“Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.”

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