"This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord."

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Source : Charles Hodge (1856). “A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians”, p.360

Charles Hodge

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“I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.”
“All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.”
“Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice." I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.”
“Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.119
“All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”
“She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.”
“The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.”
“I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.”

Source : "Passage: Bob Lemon, 79". www.wired.com. January 13, 2000.

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