Here and there Quote by John Cleese

“The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!”

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years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.

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Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.

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Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

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England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

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Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

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