"We cannot claim that God is on our side:" What a thing to say. What a muddled, pompous, arrogant thing to say. It is possible to say "I cannot claim that God is on my side:" after all that would be a simple statement of the obvious for Gordon Brown to make - no-one from God downwards was on his side.
For those of us of robust and cheerful thought, God is always on the side of Angels.
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- Plans Being Laid to Take Back Libya From the People
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- Envy: or, Had We but World Enough and Time
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Fallen Angels
- David Cameron (for risking the disorderly dissolution of the Euro)
- Giorgio Napolitano (for stance on Budapest 1956: Prague 1968: Italy 2013)
- Mervyn King (for bailing-out Northern Rock)
- Nicholas Kaldor (for inventing VAT)
2 comments:
...er, shouldn't that be the other way around?
Probably Raven, most of what I think about things seems to be the other way round from others' thoughts.
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