"I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern."

-- Reynolds Price

#Thinking Quotes #Southern Quotes #Southerner Quotes

“If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?”
“True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.”
“We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.”

Source : "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! " with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.
“Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.”
“I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)”
“It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.”
“The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we can use blogs to express specific criticisms of published articles and to use social media to disseminate these criticisms.”

Source : "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology" by Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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