"I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality tales. In fact, you might find your religious framework here in dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction. Here, and in videogames, you find strict codes of authority, the "rules of the game," the life-or-death quest and struggle that people crave."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Allegra Goodman

#Religious Quotes #Struggle Quotes #People Quotes

“Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.”

Source : John W. Dean (2002). “The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court”, p.129, Simon and Schuster
“The innate harmony that exists between mind and body is one of the secrets behind the amazing power of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which is weakened by an inefficient use of the body. Our bodies must be strong, relaxed, and healthy to respond to our minds' commands.”
“Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jul 27, 2011
“[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.”
“The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower”
“Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.”
“I had sold my soul for pleasure.”
“I believe our nation is at a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage where vows are broken, our rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them. These constitutional violations have increased independent of whether there's been a Democrat-controlled Washington or a Republican-controlled Washington.”

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