William Jenkyn Quotes
There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.
William Jenkyn
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
Eddie Izzard
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Well, June is, uh, National Dairy Month, and I'll be milking Deirdre later... Ain't that right baby.
Don Imus
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It's hard to believe that unscrupulous people would take advantage of the public's generosity at times like these, but it does happen,
Sam Reed
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I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.
Zephyr Teachout
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
Oscar Wilde
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The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.
Van Jones
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Because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
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Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.
Thomas Hobbes
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You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
William Vickrey
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Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?
William Wilberforce
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Again Sam’s genitals became rock, and this astonished him as much as anything. Through Franz, he was becoming the stone Earth; the final border separating him from the planet was disappearing. And this transformation to rock was fuelled by desire, the most ephemeral thing on Earth.
Barry Webster
