"History does not have sides, although historians do."

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Jay Nordlinger

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“Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.”
“It stank pretty bad, of course: manure was caked all over the wagon. But we were free. Right then I was elated with a sense of how faithful God is to his promises; I was free, and I was smiling joyfully on a manure wagon. As we ambled along, I laughed to myself when I thought of God's sense of humor in delivering us that way. Even today, the smell of manure reminds me of freedom.”
“American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.”
“Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.”

Source : "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Interview with Lee R. Raymond, acton.org. July 20, 2010.
“Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.”
“We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stoneâ€”crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisionsâ€”one has to live with them, and we try.”
“In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.”
“Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.”

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