"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."

Comfort, Doubt, Job

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"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."

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"If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour."

Simon Conway Morris, British Scientist

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"Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash."

Bill Forsyth, Scottish Director

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"If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Nobody objected to live in prisonif already felt comfortable living in it."

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"The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Authentic people are so comfortable in their own skins they make us more comfortable in our own."

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"Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."

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"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society."

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"Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day."

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"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death."

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"Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen."

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"Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything."

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"Everyone has an equal right to inequality."

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"If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state."

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