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Because it's a an unfair fact fanatics of all persuasions easily grab the headlines while acts of decency don't, I was particularly cheered to read this:
Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas, serving as human shields. Quote from the article:
“This is not about us and them,” said Dalia Mustafa, a student who attended mass at Virgin Mary Church on Maraashly Street. “We are one. This was an attack on Egypt as a whole, and I am standing with the Copts because the only way things will change in this country is if we come together.”
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On a far more trivial but fun note, I found a quote that reminded me again why I like John Lennon. (You know, other than for musical reasons.) Not just because it's witty - which he so often was - but because he's poking fun at his own tendencies to self-dramatize. (Many people can make fun of others, but painting yourself as the butt of the joke is a much, much rarer art.) Plus he manages to sum up every band break-up reason ever in the following masterpiece of a statement:
Epstein was dead and people were bothering with us business, the whole pressure of it finally got to us. So, that’s what people do when they’re together - they start picking on each other, you know. It was like “It’s because of you, you got the tambourine wrong and it’s because of that that my whole life is a misery!” You know, and it became petty but the manifestations were on each other because we were the only ones we had.
"You got the tambourine wrong and it's because of that that my whole life is a misery!" is just the best complaint ever and shall now be the subtitle under ever break-up related interview I'm reading/watching in the next decades. Thanks, John.:)
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Still on a good note, Mitch Benn says it all, and not just for Doctor who fans. Just insert the name of the show you're addicted to in the following song instead, but it's oh so true, and not just for Saturday nights:
Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas, serving as human shields. Quote from the article:
“This is not about us and them,” said Dalia Mustafa, a student who attended mass at Virgin Mary Church on Maraashly Street. “We are one. This was an attack on Egypt as a whole, and I am standing with the Copts because the only way things will change in this country is if we come together.”
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On a far more trivial but fun note, I found a quote that reminded me again why I like John Lennon. (You know, other than for musical reasons.) Not just because it's witty - which he so often was - but because he's poking fun at his own tendencies to self-dramatize. (Many people can make fun of others, but painting yourself as the butt of the joke is a much, much rarer art.) Plus he manages to sum up every band break-up reason ever in the following masterpiece of a statement:
Epstein was dead and people were bothering with us business, the whole pressure of it finally got to us. So, that’s what people do when they’re together - they start picking on each other, you know. It was like “It’s because of you, you got the tambourine wrong and it’s because of that that my whole life is a misery!” You know, and it became petty but the manifestations were on each other because we were the only ones we had.
"You got the tambourine wrong and it's because of that that my whole life is a misery!" is just the best complaint ever and shall now be the subtitle under ever break-up related interview I'm reading/watching in the next decades. Thanks, John.:)
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Still on a good note, Mitch Benn says it all, and not just for Doctor who fans. Just insert the name of the show you're addicted to in the following song instead, but it's oh so true, and not just for Saturday nights:
