"A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves."

-- Jared Diamond

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“I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, 'You're great.' We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.”
“Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”

Source : Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company
“Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.”
“I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesnâ€™t matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones.”
“It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man”
“Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.”
“To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.131, The Floating Press
“She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.”

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