"The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us."

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Source : "In Eutropium". II. 149,

Claudius Claudianus

#Affliction Quotes

“So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.”

Source : "The Best God Joke Ever - and It's Mine!". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.
“In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.”
“People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.”
“Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.”
“Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.”
“Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.”
“Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...”
“...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment was music: he had always had a great love of dadras, chaitis, barahmasas, horis, kajris - songs such as Deeti was singing. Listening to her now, he knew why Bhojpuri was the language of this music: because of all the tongues spoken between the Ganges and the Indus, there was none that was its equal in the expression of the nuances of love, longing and separation - of the plight of those who leave and those who stay at home.”

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