"I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning."

-- Jonathan Coe

#Real Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“Start right now to put into practice some of the things that have been taught to us today.”
“art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings ...”
“I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.”
“The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, itâ€™s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird”
“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
“Ranger fans are the rudest and they're proud of it, I'm sure.”
“The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.”
“Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far as the Lord will permit him. That is why there is so much strife, turmoil, and confusion all over the earth. One master mind is governing the nations. It is not the president of the United States; it is not Hitler; it is not Mussolini; it is not the king or government of England or any other land; it is Satan himself.”

Source : Joseph Fielding Smith (1973). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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