"Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America."

-- Camille Paglia

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“We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.”
“God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.55, Ignatius Press
“Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.”
“Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.”
“The truth about myself? I'm obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours of trainig per day. Many people would probably be surprised if they met me.”
“Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.”
“The biggest mistake to me is complacency.”
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”

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