Quotemeal: Aug. 11th, 1948

Wednesday, August 11, 1948

"Everybody wants justice - for someone else."
— Bruce Cockburn

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— W. R. Inge —
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"The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth."
— Malcolm Muggeridge —

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Illustration of Bruce Cockburn — "Everybody wants justice - for someone else."

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