"A basic tenet of healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency"

-- Peter Fenn

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“No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret Temple from prying eyes, somewhere in its heart of hearts, is but a decoy for the masses who need this simple concrete limited thing in their lives. The real Temple is the whole world, and there is nothing as divinely blessed as a blooming growing garden.”
“Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.”
“It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.”

Source : Julie Smith (1996). “House of Blues”, Fawcett
“Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.”
“When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game." "Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play...”

Source : Peter Lerangis (2012). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 3: The Dead of Night”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.
“Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant profit," not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all.”

Source : "A simple, mildly incredulous philippic". nielsenhayden.com. April 7, 2010.
“Virtue must shape itself in deed.”
“Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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