"I think it is fair, in a way, to describe certain forms of Marxism, for instance, as the secular equivalent of a religion. But, I think the same is true, to a certain extent, of secular liberalism as well."

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Source : Source: www.christianpost.com

Ross Douthat

#Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes #Certain Quotes

“I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.”
“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
“You got a lot of ladies to get through. Youâ€™re still young. First loveâ€™s the sweetest, but it doesnâ€™t last.â€ â€œNot ever?â€ I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. â€œWhen we fall that first time, weâ€™re not really in love with the girl. Weâ€™re in love with being in love. Weâ€™ve got no idea what sheâ€™s really aboutâ€”or what sheâ€™s capable of. Weâ€™re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. Weâ€™re idiots.”
“As a new president takes office and elevates global warming alarmism to official federal policy, much of America is experiencing record low temperatures. While the deep freeze amounts to little more than irony, Americans should nevertheless take what could well be a last opportunity to reconsider the cliff off which Barack Obama, Al Gore and the rest of the global warming industry want us to jump.”
“The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.”
“No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.”
“All great and precious things are lonely.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.458, Penguin
“I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.”

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