"I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking."

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Source : Matthew Tindal (1730). “Christianity as Old as the Creation: Or, The Gospel, a Republication of the Religion of Nature. |. ...”, p.342

Matthew Tindal

#Jesus Quotes #Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.”
“The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in by an advertising agency to supplement its work on behalf of a client. His work and that of the advertising agency do not conflict with or duplicate each other.”
“While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.”
“When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?”
“I donâ€™t live in either my past or my future. Iâ€™m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, youâ€™ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment weâ€™re living now.”
“When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.”
“An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).”
“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.”

Source : Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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