"Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul."

-- William Henry Houghton

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“The single most effective way to make a service as reliable as possible is to make it as simple as possible. Find the simplest solution that meets all the requirements.”
“It has to be now,â€ he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. â€œAfter all, you canâ€™t allow me to go around like this all day.â€ â€œFrom what Iâ€™ve learned so far, this is your natural condition,â€ came her pert reply.”
“I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?”
“Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.”

Source : Zona Gale (1927). “Yellow gentians and blue”
“The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.”

Source : "I would have been perfect as a man". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 09, 2010.
“When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.”
“In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.”
“I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.”

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