"You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check."

-- Pat Paulsen

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“It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (1991). “Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case”, Vintage
“Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.”
“When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.”
“'They straightway left their nets and followed Him' (Mt. 4:20). The Apostles did not grudge leaving their nets for the Lord's sake, although they were perhaps their only property, and precious to them because they lived by them; and we, likewise, for the Lord's sake, ought to leave everything that hinders our following Him ? that is, all the many and various nets in which the enemy entangles us in life.”
“The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.”
“Islam is politics or it is nothing.”

Source : "Islamic Revolution" by Bernard Lewis, www.nybooks.com. January 21, 1988.
“There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.65, Faber & Faber
“To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.”

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