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Annie Dillard quote: "Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless..."

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

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It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which government intervention is urgently necessary is also the only point at which action of the State is now effectively inhibited. It is in the region of wages and prices that we really require the continual economic leadership of government, but in our prevailing trade structure any such suggestion has come to be regarded as impious. Oswald Mosley
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I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years? I said. Laurell K. Hamilton
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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. Norman Rockwell
I am thinking of those strange moments when unexpectedly a kind of second sight like a deceptive memory seems suddenly to give us glimpses of many earlier lives. Erich Maria Remarque
Rand Paul quote: "The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated..."
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers. Rand Paul
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press. Esther Dyson
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection. Michael Behe
All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion. Fulton J. Sheen
Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information. Michael Isikoff
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans. Neil Sheehan
At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of our own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner... Che Guevara
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John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly. Rich Lowry
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Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries. Tito Jackson
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The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance. Ahmed Yassin
Mark Twain quote: "A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like..."
A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. Mark Twain