"My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine."

-- Flip Wilson

#Messages Quotes #Fine Quotes

“When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it aside after a while. To actually comprehend the human tragedy of these events is overwhelming. We see so many images, but there's always the sense, for Americans, that it's not in our backyard. That's another reason why the war in Bosnia was so fascinating; because it really was in Europe's backyard. It was in Europe. And they didn't do anything about it for years. It took the Americans to end that war, really. That's a shame.”
“The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.”
“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”

Source : Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The works of mencius”, p.198
“From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.”

Source : Loung Ung (2010). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, p.5, Harper Collins
“Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.”
“The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.”
“When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.”
“I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.”

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