"Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum."

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Source : Loot (1967) act 2

Joe Orton

#Work Quotes #Reading Quotes #Police Quotes

“It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them.”
“Dhoni is one of the greatest captain I have ever seen. Dhoni's record is praiseworthy. Twenty-two Test wins is not a small achievement. And the success against Australia has come against the backdrop of the not-so-good times he went through in the last two years”
“Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest”
“We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it..”
“By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).”
“What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man”

Source : Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.122

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