I wish not to be given a title or an appointed position. I can and will do more good if I were made a Federal Agent at Large, and ...I will help best by doing it my way through my communications with people of all ages. First and Foremost I am an entertainer but all I need is the Federal Credentials.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and ...it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He put before them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is ...the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only a fully trained Jedi knight with the Force as his ally will conquer Vader and his emperor. If you end your training now--if y...ou choose the quick and easy path, as Vader did--you will become an agent of evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent ...and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning displ...ay or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community--the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice-- They roused him with mustard and cress--... They roused him with jam and judicious advice-- They set him conundrums to guess.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bog...us enthusiasm, the constant drinking and drabbing, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »