"A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.”
“I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
“grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.”
“The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“My stories are character driven.”
“High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons
“Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.”
“I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.”

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