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Monday, 25 June 2018

Quotes 25 Jun

Adversity stretcheth our days. 
     --Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) 
    &nbs p; _Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial_ [1658] 

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such 
a society as our own without wanting to change it. 
     --George Orwell (1903-1950) 
      _The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters 
       of George Orwell_ [1968], "Why I Joined The 
       Independent Labour Party" 

This is the choice before us: either try to 
revolutionize the world and break under it, or 
revolutionize ourselves and remake the world. 
     --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) 
      _Crossways_ [1984] 

Individual reformation [is] a necessary prerequisite 
and conditi on of social reformation. 
     --Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) 
      (In Christopher Isherwood's _Vedanta for the 
       Western World_ [1945], "Idolatry") 

When Christ's preachings are practiced, it will be 
possible to say that a revolution is occurring 
in the world. 
     --Fidel Castro (1926-   &nbs p;) 
      _Chicago Tribune_ [January 19, 1998]

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