"When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?"

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Source : George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26

George Canning

#Thankful Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.”
“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
“I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.”
“The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the process that used to take generations. Preventing people from getting things like golden rice or disease-resistant cassava destroys human life, and does not spare the environment in any way.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You fall in love with your heart; you fall out of love with your head.”
“Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation, or here's something you can't say because its a...secret; "You can't tell him that because he's not cleared to know that." Government wants to control information and control language because that's the way you control thought, and basically that's the game they're in.”

Source : "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1990.
“I sympathize with every kitchen porter.”
“Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump up and down, exaggeratedly scratch themselves and holler in a way that must make the primates wonder how this otherwise so intelligent species has come to depend on such inferior means of communication.”

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