Keith Preston quotes

“The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.”
-- Keith Preston

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“It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals and minorities are at the mercy of unconstrained majorities hardly constitutes freedom in any meaningful sense.”
-- Keith Preston

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“Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.”
-- Keith Preston

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“He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.”
-- Keith Preston

Source : Keith Preston (1921). “Splinters”

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“The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.”
-- Keith Preston

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“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.”

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.”

“My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.”

“The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.”

“There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.”

Source : Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.160, World Wisdom, Inc

“I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.”

“Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.”

“My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.”