"A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail."

-- Lewis Mumford

#Men Quotes #Needs Quotes #Bail Quotes

“For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no metaphysical barrier to doing so - it was just a matter of getting the particles into new arrangements - was encouraging. That was the Baconian programme.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.”
“My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
“The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.”

Source : Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.695
“As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour”
“Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.”
“If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.”

Source : House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.
“The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of non-creation”

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