"Nothing is part of everything."

-- Dejan Stojanovic

“If you're making abortion illegal and undermining the various things that will allow the prevention of that need, it can only be a situation that goes from bad to worse.”
“The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.”
“We're looking for something that sounds like a member of the Republican Party. The reality is, he's playing for the Democratic vote at this point ... but he has to give something to create energy among conservatives.”
“Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.”
“Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?”
“The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.”

Source : "Bipartisan test awaits new Congress" by Martha Roby, www.politico.com. November 13, 2012.
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
“The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.”

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