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Related For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a lit... SLAVOJ ŽIžEK Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Ang... MICHAEL LEUNIG In what we used to call the Club Med economies, there's Anglo-Saxon borrow-and-spend, and, on the su... CHARLES DUMAS He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes. LEWIS CARROLL If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary m... LYDIA DAVIS Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. DOUG LARSON Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't... JAMES FENTON Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mea... T.S. ELIOT It proves that the committee is Anglo-Saxon. They prefer the English. TONY PARKER France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of ... XAVIER NIEL Doing good does us good. ARTHUR P. CIARAMICOLI Doing good induces others to reciprocate. ARTHUR P. CIARAMICOLI It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxons for an hour su... JOSIAH STRONG Least hypothesis” held no place of preference; Occam’s razor could not slice the prime problem, ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar... APURVA GAGLANI Come for a Cocktail Party, JEANNE LEWIS It was important that those guys have Anglo-Saxon names. MICKEY BLAKE 2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up. MARINE LE PEN In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. SEAMUS HEANEY Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex. CHARLAINE HARRIS It's the great masterwork of Anglo-Saxon England and everything else flows from that. ANDY ORCHARD I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days. KABIR BEDI (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH He fights with the traditional Spanish weapon, the sword, and disdains the impersonal Anglo-Saxon we... ANTONIO BANDERAS Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in th... UMBERTO ECO The Protestants of old go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is servi... SUNDAY ADELAJA There are certain resemblances between Iceland and the Anglo- Saxon nations, but perhaps an importan... STEPHEN LEWIS Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any o... DOROTHY L. SAYERS We hesitate to call liars out in professional environments because we feel guilty for being suspicio... TRAVIS BRADBERRY I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concer... MARCUS GARVEY Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire a... CECIL RHODES Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class syste... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips. NICHOLAS HASLAM There are certain resemblances between Iceland and the Anglo-Saxon nations, but perhaps an important... STEPHEN LEWIS Neuroscientists call this auditory scene analysis. It's really very similar to the cocktail party ef... ANDREW H. BASS The cocktail party is a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite for din... CHARLES SMITH The mission of the Anglo-Saxon has been largely that of the soldier; but the world is making progres... JOSIAH STRONG They are marked by different traditions and they have a stronger Anglo-Saxon background. JULIAN CALLOW The large white owl that with eye is blind,
That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,
I... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The bash leading up to the University of Florida vs. the University of Georgia game is billed as The... DAVE HOLLINGSWORTH It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo... JOSIAH STRONG Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN I was hoping for just a note or a phone call. Once Scott found out, this is just the type of guy he ... TRACY SMITH I was skating for 10 days, so I felt good out there. The biggest thing is we won the game. MARIAN GABORIK The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. HUMPHREY BOGART an assertion of executive power last wielded in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence by the King of England. RAMZI BINALSHIBH Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. RICHARD CECIL The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things. RICHIE BENAUD Looking back on 2005, the Saxon team delivered the best of both worlds for clients and shareholders ... ALLAN SMITH The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the... MARTIN JACQUES I believe this uranium business will give the Anglo-Saxons such tremendous power that Europe will be... WERNER HEISENBERG This measure would require a parent to decide when a child is 9 or 10 years old what his academic ne... KAREN WALKER Ironically some of the most liked films so far ... were two films by Anglo-Saxon, established direct... LEE MARSHALL Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroo... BILLY CARTER Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is Ger... MARTIN FREEMAN I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out. TRACY KIDDER A love lust for war ends in death... PHILIP T. M. This year was definitely more open than the bad old days, but the door was only open a crack. In the... BLAIR HORNER It is good and it will do good for Protestants as well, HORST KOEHLER I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order ... MALCOLM MCLAREN It is important to me that people believe in me as a model, trust in me as a model - which they do i... NOEMIE LENOIR These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had ind... ASHIM SHANKER Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner. ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians. SUNDAY ADELAJA It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ... GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s... SARAH DESSEN Each show is theme-based. For example, one of our shows is called 'Recess,' so it's a pretty clear f... CATHIE FILIAN Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. ROBERT BENCHLEY Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. FRANKLIN ADAMS I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the rec... MARIO MONTI It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'... UNKNOWN What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bat... BILLY CARTER In the old days I'd see a lot more people with career or academic issues. Now it's more major depres... BOB MCGRATH The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as ... JOSIAH STRONG We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real ... PAUL MOONEY And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH It tastes better because it's brewed with the whole leaf. Tea bags are filled with the remainder of ... CATHY PERNOCK French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countri... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you... KARL LAGERFELD The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up wi... TERRY EAGLETON College was hard, but it was nothing like this. Everybody just tried to get through the first day. C... BRANDON BASS The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL ONE WHO HAS WORKED FOR SELF AND FAMILY LEAVES BEHIND MEMORIES , ONE WHO HAS WORKED FOR OTHERS LEAVES... DR.PRASAD RAJHANS There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dar... GERALD HAUSMAN The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil ELSA MAXWELL I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing... JOHNNY VEGAS That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in t... MAX MULLER Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi... JANICE HARDY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the po... MARVIN OLASKY I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of... JANEANE GAROFALO The culture is changing in college sports today, and the emphasis on students is coming back into pl... ERIK CHRISTIANSON The large German banks now seem to be more interested in competing with Anglo-Saxon banks in interna... STEPHEN LEWIS Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization ... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call '... MARIO ANDRETTI
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GEORGE MACDONALD The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and ... GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 He who forgives not is not forgiv... GEORGE MACDONALD That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but tha... GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 [God desires] not that He may say to them... GEORGE MACDONALD I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary s... ROSS MACDONALD Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can ... NORM MACDONALD In this meet I wasn't expecting anything (or) to be close to him. I'm actually just happy to be divi... DAVID MACDONALD While the Sanctuary has been most associated with whales and whale watching, it also serves as a ste... CRAIG MACDONALD Instead of wholesale adoption, we are seeing at most experimentation. Worldwide farmers have good re... DAVID MACDONALD Here,at the University of Malta, the sign that should hang out of the window should say: “None of ... VANESSA MACDONALD A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way... KELLY MACDONALD Losing Hidden Valley would be not a good thing. No question he's in a difficult position, certainly.... ROSS MACDONALD Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Continuing a short series on authenticity: There ... GEORGE MACDONALD EPIPHANY What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope fr... GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Ab... GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thé... GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on topic... GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 The Son of God suffered unto the... GEORGE MACDONALD The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who ... GEORGE MACDONALD Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His b... GEORGE MACDONALD The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching.... GEORGE MACDONALD Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea o... GEORGE MACDONALD I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends abou... NORM MACDONALD I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have... NORM MACDONALD No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him GEORGE MACDONALD To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved. GEORGE MACDONALD If, instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart o... GEORGE MACDONALD …for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it; GEORGE MACDONALD Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, tha... NORM MACDONALD I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do r... NORM MACDONALD I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical. NORM MACDONALD I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely into... MARGO MACDONALD This is in the very nature of things: obedience alone places a man in the position in which he can s... GEORGE MACDONALD Humility is essential greatness, the inside of grandeur. GEORGE MACDONALD Instead of sending a sample to a laboratory where they do some kind of elaborate analysis and eventu... DAVID MACDONALD When I was young, I'd watch guys on 'The Tonight Show', Buddy Hackett, guys like that, w... NORM MACDONALD