"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."

-- Pearl S. Buck

#Faith Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Angel Quotes

“We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.”
“Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.”

Source : Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose (2002). “Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush”, p.131, Vintage
“I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.”
“The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.”
“No one seems to care. Certainly, no one in the million dollar fund-raising cancer clinics are excited over the almost miraculous ...record of...Krebiozen.”
“The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?”
“I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust acts. Thus, physical sensitivity and self-interest are the authors of all justice.”
“If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.”

Source : Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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