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Vera Nazarian

"For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable."

-- Vera Nazarian

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“The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor of Scripture.Â My heart was crushd to think that I led so many people astray.Â I was appalled that I could have been so wrong, and I was deeply grateful that God had not struck me dead as a false prophet.”

Source : Ken Abraham, Jim Bakker (1998). “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalyspe”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc
“And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.”
“'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'”
“That's my personality - to end up taking the hardest road possible to get to the top. But I think I will get there.”
“I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of...”
“That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.”
“I'm never going to be cast as a 'Bond' girl. I mean, I could do it and I would love it. But I don't ooze sexuality.”
“The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.”

Source : Ralph Barton Perry (1964). “Puritanism and Democracy”

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