"If youâ€™ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to ***** up this cityâ€™s traffic."

-- John Oliver

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“Only those things the heart believes are true.”

Source : Vincent Starrett (2016). “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes [Revised Edition]”, p.67, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.39, New York Review of Books
“Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.”
“Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.”

Source : Roland Allen (2012). “The Reform of the Ministry: A Study in the Work of Roland Allen”, p.24, The Lutterworth Press
“How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.”
“Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.”
“Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
“Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.”

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