"So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds."

-- Ebenezer Erskine

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“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”
“A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.”

Source : Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.16, New Directions Publishing
“I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in the movie business. I went there like many writers - I had a screenplay deal and I would go to these meetings and it was the typical thing. And I hated it. I was not interested in writing screenplays, actually. But I kept feeling like that was what I was supposed to do. It was just this horrible cognitive dissonance.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.”
“Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I'm going to address Jonathan Gruber's confirmation that he believes we're all stupid.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“I no longer run barefoot.”

Source : "Zola Pieterse finds peace in native land" by Duncan Mackay and Andrew Meldrum, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2005.
“Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.”
“I am going to say something that will knock your lights off. God has the power to take life but he can't. He's got the power to do it but he won't. He's bound, he can't. He says, "Death and life are in the power" of whose tongue? Yours.”

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