“Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you.”
Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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Starhawk
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Source: Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982), Ch. 6 : Building Community : Processes for Groups, p. 92
Context: We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
David Hockney
(1937) British artist
Interview with Nigel Farndale, "The talented Mr. Hockney," The Telegraph, (15 November 2001)
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Winston S. Churchill
(1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
This appears to be a variation of a quote often attributed to Caskie Stinnett in 1960, "A diplomat...is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip" https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kcycAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=%22A+diplomat+is+a+person+who+can+tell+you+to+go+to+hell+in+such+a+way+that+you+actually+look+forward+to+the+trip.%22 but which appears to have been in common use in the 1950s and is first recorded in the Seattle Daily Times in 1953 as "Diplomat—one who can tell you to go to hades and make you look forward to the trip". http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_diplomat_is_a_person_who_can_tell_you_to_go_to_hell_so_that_you_look_forw/
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Variant: Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions
