"It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

“Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.”
“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
“I can't control what people think. They know who I am.”
“A family is something very static and hard to escape, so everybody has a certain role over the years, no matter if you like it or not.”
“Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.”
“It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.”

Source : Daniel Taylor (1986). “The myth of certainty: the reflective Christian and the risk of commitment”, W Pub Group
“It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”
“Wherever you are or whatever your job, don't be confused or diverted by false priorities. We have only one mission to perform-that is to fight and win. And, we must do it better than anyone else in the world.”

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