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Leon V. DePoncins

"The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated."

-- Leon V. DePoncins

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“Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.”
“You canâ€™t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.”
“An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.”
“I just don't feel like I'm old. I still feel like I've got a lot of years, a lot to give in this game, and I'm able to do it because I love to work.”
“A woman simply is, but a man must become.”

Source : Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage
“Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.”
“It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else. Alan Jones is a pioneer in reimagining a Christian faith that emerges from authentic spirituality. His work stimulates and encourages me deeply”
“I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.”

Source : "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". Interview with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

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