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Karl Pilkington

"I've been on the planet for 40 years now, and I'm still none the wiser as to what it's all about really. I've never worried about life's big questions. People at my age sit about pondering about 'why are we here?' The only time I ever asked meself that is when Suzanne booked us a surprise holiday to Lanzarote."

Source : "Karl Pilkington gets attacked by a crab and swims through poo in The Moaning of Life series 2 trailer" by Tom Eames, www.digitalspy.com. August 3, 2015.

Karl Pilkington

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“You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded.”
“To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.”
“Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.”
“The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.232, Routledge
“The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.”
“I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.”
“Goalies often react quickly to shots with no regard for what might happen to their body because we are trained to stop pucks first and ask questions later.”
“I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!”

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