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last updated: November 28, 2023

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.
-- Charles Lyell

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I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.
-- David Walliams

Source : "David Walliams swim in river Thames makes a million for charity" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2011.

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I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.
-- Ian Anderson

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The Thames is liquid history.
-- John Burns

Source : To an American who had compared the Thames disparagingly with the Mississippi, in 'Daily Mail' 25 January 1943

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“It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."”

Source : "The Bill of Rights,"NewYork University Law Review, Apr. 1960
“I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.”
“If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die”
“I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.”
“And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House
“I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.”
“It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.”

Source : 1959 Of opening night reviews.The Ape In Me.
“That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.”
“The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.”