"Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars,"

-- Pat Barker

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“I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.”
“Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is a big difference between criticism and transphobia. The transgender lobby knows that censoring criticism allows the accusation of transphobia to prevail and appears willing to distort the words of those they disagree with.”
“The signs are increasing. The lights in the sky will appear red, blue, green, rapidly. Someone is coming from very far and wants to meet the people of earth. Meetings have already taken place, but those who have really seen have been silent.”
“We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.”
“I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.”

Source : "Steve Jobs Biography Examines How Rule-Breaker Tied 'Artistry to Engineering'". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 27, 2011.
“Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.”

Source : Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.
“The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.”
“I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time.”

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