"Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church."

-- Timothy M. Dolan

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“Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.”
“The Voice did not consider itself a conventional magazine. It took me awhile to realize that it was named The Voice for a reason. They wanted voices. At the time, good magazine stories were still believed to be written in the third person based on the false belief they were more objective. Of course some conventional stories require third person, but in the really interesting stories - the ones I got do to at The Voice and Esquire - were about subjectivity, subjectivities.”
“The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.”

Source : "How to be radical? An interview with Todd Gitlin and George Monbiot". openDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.
“I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.”
“The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.”

Source : David Gelernter (2010). “The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
“When we were touring with The Mighty Boosh, we went on a ghost tour of York. It was all about ghosts, and the tour guide was hilarious.”
“Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day.”
“We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!”

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