"When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing."

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Source : Mark Mills (2008). “The Savage Garden”, p.45, Penguin

Mark Mills

#Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.”
“Once comics become your life, you have to make decisions on what you spend your time on.”
“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”

Source : Humor & Caricature magazine, June 1995.
“Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is that I also happen to love Jesus. When I'm approaching these songs, I'm not approaching them like Mozart. I see my faith and the struggle of my ancestors and of a people seeking freedom beside what these songs are going to be in terms of their arrangement and delivery.”
“Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.”
“The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1783). “The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author”, p.90
“I'm not much of a jokester.”
“In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.”

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