"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."

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Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Pat Oliphant

#People Quotes #Boring Quotes

“Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.”
“My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.”
“It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible". Book by Frederic G. Kenyon, Chapter III, How The Books Of The New Testament Were Written, p. 21, December 1935.
“We will soon be living in an era in which we cannot guarantee survivability of any single point. However, we can still design systems in which system destruction requires the enemy to pay the price of destroying n of n stations. If n is made sufficiently large, it can be shown that highly survivable system structures can be built.”
“I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.”
“Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.”
“As created beings, angels are not to be worshipped, glorified, or adored in and of themselves. The angels were created to worship, glorify, adore, and obey God.”
“The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.”

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