"The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult."

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Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber

Francis Spufford

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“Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.”

Source : "The Daily Debate" by Robert Tracinski, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 25, 2013.
“The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.”
“Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.”

Source : "June 30: Nancy Pelosi, Wendy Davis, Tim Huelskamp, Ralph Reed, Michael Eric Dyson, Jim DeMint, Rachel Maddow, Pete Williams". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2013.
“You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.”
“When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.”
“The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.”
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.”
“He who sends the storm steers the vessel.”

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