"Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own."

-- Jeremy Collier

#Singularity Quotes #Distasteful Quotes

“Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require this. Rather we are bound by the shared recognition that when one person suffers, all suffer; when we violate one life, all lives are violated; when we pollute the earth, all living things are stained; when one nation threatens the security of another, it, too, becomes less secure; when we place the planet in mortal danger, we hazard the future of our own children as well as the children of our enemies.”
“As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant and keep your judgments to yourself.”

Source : "Jools Holland: My family values". Interview with Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.
“The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.”

Source : Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart (2001). “The Shape of Irish History”
“Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.”
“All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing.”
“People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.”
“My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.”
“I'm getting ready to change a lot of opinions about me.”

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