"Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world."

-- J. C. Watts

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“It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission - Godâ€™s mission.”

Source : Christopher J. H. Wright (2013). “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative”, p.62, InterVarsity Press
“We live in a society where we may have differences, of course, but we learn to celebrate these differences.”
“...The evidence that fluoridation of the public water supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is irrefutable.”
“Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.”
“I think that the way to have style is to accept where your body is right now, heavier or skinnier, whether you're going to change in the future and dress it as it is. The fact is you can always find clothes. It may be harder for plus sized people, I completely understand that. But I don't believe that it's impossible to dress with style.”
“You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world”
“How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?”
“Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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