"There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference."

-- Joe Bradley

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“The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.”
“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”
“Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.”
“I was always fast riding bikes with my brother who got me on a bike. There was little to do so I ended up riding everywhere. It was both my transportation, entertainment, and a good way perhaps to make a living I hope.”

Source : Source: pedalmag.com
“We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.”
“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”

Source : "The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.
“In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast, in a hunt, shots vary in quality according to how well selected they may be.”
“Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.”

Source : FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Dec 18, 2012

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