"Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come."

“Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.”

“A person who is able to be a living centre of peace in today's world and who is able to radiate that peace powerfully, ceaselessly, will be in a position to give needy mankind the benefit it lacks most and is in greatest need of.”

“I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.”

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“This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.”

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“Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.”

Source : "Dish's Charlie Ergen: Networks' Criticism of Ad-Skipping Service Is 'Disingenuous'" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 8, 2012.

“The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.”

Source : John Burgoyne (1860). “Orderly Book of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne: From His Entry Into the State of New York Until His Surrender at Saratoga, 16th Oct. 1777 : from the Original Manuscript Deposited at Washington's Head Quarters, Newburgh, N.Y.”, p.3

“It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.”

Source : Thomas Young (1798). “An Essay on Humanity to Animals”, p.90

“We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.”

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