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My Twitter Posts in September 2011

1. Some medical status or treatment mimic or cause anxiety. If doctors can't help then it's from irrational fear. Why have anxiety about Islam?

2. Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. -- Arthur Miller

3. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. -- Abraham Lincoln

4. "Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere." -- Harold Bloom

5. 3000 jobs gone at BAE, 200,000 may go at councils, financial crisis, weakening jobs market: high time to cut funds for multicultural events.

6. The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts. -- Dean Inge, Dean of St Paul's, London , 1860-1954

7. As the saying goes, "The sun discovers the filth under the white snow”.

8. Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self importance. -- J. Donald Walters

9. If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell! -- Jimmy Swaggart

10. I am so tired! Will I be tired of thinking I'm tired. Anyway off to do my Sirah talk. One day I may be tired of doing things when I'm tired!

11. Fantasic response to our SNC freshers' Chaplaincy stall. "Students achieving oneness will move on to twoness." -- Woody Allen

12. Off to Suffolk New College Freshers fair. Must tell new students, "If at 1st you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you." -- Someone

13. A life lived in fear is a life half-lived. -- Spanish Proverb

14. Shlomo Tannenholz has sent malicious emails to many people calling me "racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, bigoted, segregationist":Who is he?

15. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -- Bertrand Russell

16. Thought is crucial for balanced minds. Hate & prejudice stop thought. Balanced minds can become enlightened: so precious that it's rationed.

17. "It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someoneyou are not.” Are you hateful because we changed to work for peace?

18. If triumphs ended conflicts! Victory @ Poitiers 2day in 1356 yet war for 97 more yrs. Over 12 yrs for peace yet we're still victims of hate.

19. To all my coreligionists reacting unintelligently to clever confrontation. Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. -- Lao Tzu

20. Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. -- Will Durant

21. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time. -- Thomas Carlyle

22. Tried to help a homeless man who came to us. Became bad mannered when asked to wait!

23. "Ingratitude is the essence of vileness." Immanuel Kant

24. There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

25. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, I told you so -- Lord Byron

26. A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. -- Kin Hubbard

27. Patriotism is virtuous with dissent and opposes undeserving government, but it never betrays one's country and love for her citizens.

28. Internet trolling: "In its most extreme form it is a criminal offence": BBC News today ref: Sean Duffy. why not burning poppy/flag in public?

29. Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. -- William E. Gladstone

30. One can, to an almost laughable degree, infer what a man's wife is like from his opinions about women in general. -- John Stuart Mill

31. Some obvious and true enemies of Islam and Muslims, who call themselves "Muslims Against Crusades", burnt the American flag today! Weird!

32. Angry faced people ask me to hate for God who is beautiful, whose mercy overrides anger & who likes to forgive. Am I to start with them 1st?

33. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

34. How many of us have the greatness of Elizabeth Turner who decided, "I will not continue the anger and the killing. It has to stop with me."?

35. We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power.Then will our world know the blessings of peace: Gladstone

36. As we draw closer to Sunday I am reminded more & more how true weakness and true cowardice give rise to treachery until it's seen as virtue!

37. You ask why my tweets are so many quotes? Because Churchill said, "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

38. If 9/11 was a catalyst for clarity then 7/7 was the rubicon beyond which muddled thinking & indecisve words against terrorism mustn't occur.

39. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw

40. The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

41. Even weeds have some virtue or benefit but we don't allow them to grow in our gardens. So why must liberal societies accommodate everything?

42. If England treats her criminals the way she treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any. -- Oscar Wilde

43. While luxuries can distract us, simple pleasures can give us the freedom to focus. -- Lee Weissman

44. Back from holiday today; the day Queen Elizabeth was born in 1533. "More than a man but sometimes (by troth) less than woman" - Robert Cecil

45. The Phones 4U advertisement featuring an illustration of Jesus was wholly "disrespectful" to the Muslim faith too!

 
Last Updated: November 2011
Review date: December 2011