"The world is getting more and more scruffier, innit?"

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“I think some bacteria have better lives than that”

“If you had 5 photos of anuses, I could not point mine out”

“Now Hilda, she was your bog standard old woman.”

“You know that guy Richard Blackwood? He went in for a colonic, live TV. Never seen again.”

“Whats good with a holiday right.. say if you work in a factory from 8 in the morning till 8 at night, packin socks into a rubber bag right.. between 8 and.. what time did i say he finishes?”

“If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about. - Karl interprets the phrase Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.”

Resonant Thoughts

"“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.” With each beatitude the gulf is widened between the disciples and the people, their call to come forth from the people becomes increasingly …"

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Religion1906–1945

#Human Nature

"I have a strong admiration for the Russian people—for their bravery, their many gifts, and their kindly nature. It is the Communist dictatorship and the declared ambition of the Communist Party and th…"

— Winston Churchill

Politics1940–2010

#courage

"No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could astonish the world more than declaration of war against Holland in 1672."

— Sir William Temple

Politics1628–1698

#justice

"In each art the difficulty of the form is a substitution for the difficulty of direct apprehension and expression of the object. The first difficulty may be more or less overcome, but the second is in…"

— Richard Wilbur

Literature1921–2017

#truth