"We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is."

-- Happy Chandler

#Dog Quotes #People Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“The New Year has come to us. / God be blessed for it.”

Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.175, Paulist Press
“Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognise your inner state of completeness and harmony.”
“Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists.”
“I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.”
“We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby.”
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mindâ€¦”
“In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to go on spending in the presence of persisting deficits and rising debt. Some form of spending must be found that will command the support of the conservative groups. Political leaders, embarrassed by their subsidies to the poor, soon learned that one of the easiest ways to spend money is on military establishments and armaments, because it commands the support of the groups most opposed to spending.”

Source : John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”
“I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.”

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