I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
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Peter Ustinov
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
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Joel Salatin
Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such...
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Tiffany Madison
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are...
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E.m. Forster
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
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Kevin Alan Lee
More Quotes By Lian Hearn
But, as your saints teach and we have always known, attachment enslaves you. Only those free from it see the world as it really is and have power over themselves and all things.
I am what I am and what I have always been, a poor soul on a journey.
The bonds between husband and wife spring from deep laws of destiny and should not be broken lightly.
...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.
But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.
