"New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying.”
“The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees. He said, 'I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.' Tragically, today's Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail.”
“The principal problem is that textual data and material remains are often incomplete and sometimes lack adequate context, in order to know precisely how they correlate. Sometimes all we can say is that the textual data and the material remains are probably related but how exactly can't be said until additional discoveries are made.”

Source : "Jesus and the Culture of His Day: An Interview with Craig A. Evans". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. November 17, 2016.
“Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.”
“writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2004). “Foul Matter”, p.68, Penguin
“In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.”
“You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.”
“The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.”

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