"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner."

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Source : "It's curtains for Okrent" by Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

Daniel Okrent

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“A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity”

Source : Carl F. H. Henry (2003). “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism”, p.16, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.”
“As the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless in the beauty of things visible the Creator rather than the creature is loved; for, when He says, 'you shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and from all your mind, and from all your strength' (Mt. 22:37), He wishes us in nothing to loosen ourselves from the bonds of His love. And when He links the love of our neighbor also to this command, He enjoins on us the imitation of His own goodness, that we should love what He loves and do what He does.”
“I was a full time student either at Stony Brook or NYU getting my masters degree. After I graduated with my masters I was working as a nutritionist and a personal trainer. So I have always had other business or other things going on while training for a fight.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“There are some mechanisms that are soâ€”so broken that they cannot be repaired.”
“I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." My relationship with God, my devotion to my husband, my responsibilities to my children, loving others, and, of course, remaining grateful for the blessings that I have. Like getting to do what I love for a living. And trust me, I am.”
“Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.”

Source : "Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Makes Holocaust Revisionism Fun". The Village Voice Review, www.villagevoice.com. August 18, 2009.
“The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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