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The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.
-- Frederick Forsyth

Source : "While we have your attention, Mr President". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2003.

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“I liked the drama of getting stoned.”
“Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.”
“Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.”
“God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.55, Ignatius Press
“My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.”
“Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.”
“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation”
“The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that Nature would seem quite inconceivable. This power of producing its likeness that resides in animals and plants, this form of unity, always subsisting and appearing eternal, this procreative virtue which is perpetually expressed without ever being destroyed, is for us a mystery which, it seems, we will never be able to fathom.”
“I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.”
“I had a 15th club in my bag.”

Source : "Crenshaw a Master Again / '84 winner, now 43, holds off Love for win" by Scott Ostler, www.sfgate.com. April 10, 1995.