"In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma."

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Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.39, A&C Black

Storm Jameson

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“Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.”
“All they do is warm their seats for their long tenures and eventually even their seats get dilapidated with the amount of money they hog in illegally and the only way it comes out is by tilting their huge pot-bellied frames to one side and emitting poisonous gases that not only depreciate their beloved seats but also the nation as a whole and then they shout 'Global Warming.' Hallelujah!”
“My idea for our band is to be influenced by something different for every album. So it's almost like making a new band with every record we make I think. That's kind of the path we're headed down now anyway.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.”
“In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.”
“Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.”

Source : Caroline Sheridan Norton (1840). “The Dream, and Other Poems”, p.236
“Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."”
“When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.”

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