"At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards."

-- E. J. Dionne

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“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
“You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.”
“If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.”
“We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American people--fear of communism, fear of terrorism, fear of immigrants, fear of people based on race and religion, fear of gays and lesbians in love who just want to get married and fear of people who are somehow different. It is fear that allows political leaders to manipulate us all and distort our national priorities.”

Source : Mike Gravel (2011). “A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It”, p.252, Seven Stories Press
“I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.”
“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”
“An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.”
“Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening”

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