"How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!"

-- Shirley Bassey

#Life And Death Quotes #Tears Quotes #World Quotes

“In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.”

Source : "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.
“The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.”

Source : The Observer Newspaper, January 11, 1981.
“Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2012). “Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish”, p.2, tredition
“Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved”
“I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.”
“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
“Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.”
“When in doubt, shut up.”

Source : Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “The Time Travelers: Volume One”, p.142, Laurel Leaf

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