"I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason."

-- Claire Forlani

#England Quotes #Reason Quotes #Absurd Quotes

“It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.”

Source : "Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture". Book by Jeremy Rifkin, 1992.
“The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful guidance of Bharat Tandon of the University of East Anglia. Belknap has once again done its end of the job superbly: the book is a physical treat-luxuriantly over-sized, heavy with quality paper and solid binding, decked out in a beautiful cover and dozens of well-chosen illustrations throughout. This is one of the prettiest Jane Austen volumes available in bookstoresthis season.”
“Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.”
“If you like to run, you should keep running!”

Source : "Get Fit for 2013: Chris Powell Answers 'GMA' Viewers' Questions". "Good Morning America", abcnews.go.com. January 4, 2013.
“Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.”

Source : "Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.
“Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, â€˜I canâ€™t.â€™ As children, they were taught that where thereâ€™s a will, thereâ€™s a way. To say, â€˜I canâ€™t,â€™ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.”
“The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away.”
“Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.”

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