"Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke ."

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Philip Jose Farmer

#Said Quotes #Call Me Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes”
“If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.”
“To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.”

Source : Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.18, University of Texas Press
“Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.”
“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.”
“If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent of God revealed to us because of our dispassion. For 'I will sing a psalm and in a pure path I will understand when Thou wilt come to me' (cf. Ps. 101:1-2). The psalm stands for virtuous conduct; understanding indicates the spiritual knowledge, gained through virtue, by means of which we perceive God's advent, when we wait for the Lord vigilant in the virtues.”
“If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.”
“There are three times in a man's life when he has the right to yell at the moon-when he marries; when his children come; and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.”

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