"I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes."

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Source : "Q&A: Mark Thomas, comedian and political activist". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2011.

Mark Thomas

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“Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.”
“When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It's sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church.”

Source : "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.
“Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.”
“Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.”
“I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.”
“For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.”

Source : Jan Struther, “The Choice”
“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”
“I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.”

Source : Catherine Anderson (2008). “Comanche Moon”, p.247, Penguin

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