"My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me."

-- Lincoln Steffens

#Father Quotes #Practice Quotes #Care Quotes

“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”
“The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The word and the deed must come together. One without the other is devoid of meaning â€¦ As the deed gets closer to the word, God gets closer to us. The results are always wonderful â€” and sometimes spectacular!”
“Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.”

Source : "Withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan halfway done, top commander says". www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2012.
“Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in the United States of America is 43 years of age. A lesbian can only expect to live to be 45 years of age. Homosexuals represent 2 percent of the population, yet today they're carrying 60 percent of the known cases of syphilis.”

Source : "Gay Bowel Syndrome? Yeah, Right" by David Holthouse, www.alternet.org. February 8, 2006.
“Well I mean I think everybody was devastated because my last day on set was my death scene and so it was just sad altogether because my character was taking her last breath and I was kind of taking my last breath of air on set with everybody so it's definitely very sad.”
“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.”
“I understood that at the core, our essence is made of pure love. We are pure love-every single one of us. How can we not be, if we come from the Whole and return to it? I knew that realizing this meant never being afraid of who we are. Therefore, being love and being our true self is one and the same thing!”

Source : FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from May 06, 2013
“The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.”

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