"The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule."

-- Michael Ignatieff

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“It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)”
“His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.”
“If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion”
“For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking.”
“There are a lot of myths about gay people.”
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
“Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and behavioral sophistication some species exhibit without supposing that they have genuine beliefs. But once these ethologists finish making the case for animal belief, they quickly move to talk of animal knowledge as well. What I argue is that this is not a mere faÃ§on de parler.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.”

Source : Charles Williams (2016). “The Image of the City and Other Essays”, p.141, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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