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T’s [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it’s political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings
Adam NicolsonAdam Nicolson To make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.
Adam NicolsonAdam Nicolson A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.
Adam NicolsonAdam Nicolson Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.
Adam NicolsonAdam Nicolson The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there.
Adam NicolsonAdam Nicolson I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity.
Adam NicolsonAdam Nicolson In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
Adam NicolsonAdam Nicolson The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view
Adam NicolsonAdam Nicolson Eric Schlosser’s book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants.
Adam NicolsonAdam Nicolson
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With new relationships, we get scared of being loved because we scared of rejection. Don’t let your fears ruin a perfectly good relationship.
Emily BockEmily Bock I love having someone to talk to all night.
Sophie SmithSophie Smith It is a loud war to love you in silence.
Noor BazziNoor Bazzi Don’t let unimportant people have too much power over you.
Hei-Ran ParkHei-Ran Park Remember that your purpose is indeed to be nothing else but YOU, all that you are and all that you want to be.
ShamaShama I like the crazy ones- the ones made of a little bit of human and a lot of star.
Lauren EdenLauren Eden Let go and trust in the higher power to guide you.
Lisa RoseLisa Rose Let the music fill the empty patches of your soul. And heal you.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade I’m not playing a role. I’m being myself, whatever the hell that is.
Bea ArthurBea Arthur If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true… I’ve never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
Barry McGuireBarry McGuire The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
John BergerJohn Berger