"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.”
“My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.”
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my childrenâ€™s letters â€” sometimes very hastily â€” but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, â€œDear Jim: I loved your card.â€ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, â€œJim loved your card so much he ate it.â€ That to me was one of the highest compliments Iâ€™ve ever received. He didnâ€™t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

Source : "Maurice Sendak and childhood — we ate it up, we loved it". www.washingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.
“On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.”
“The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.”
“Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.”
“America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.”
“My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.”

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