"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."

-- Robert Smithson

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“Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives. Those who ought to become the light of the world must necessarily burn and become less and less. By denying self, we are able to win others.”
“People in New Zealand go out of their way to not be impressed by things.”

Source : Interview with Janet Varney on Nerdist's "The JV Club" podcast #16, nerdist.com. June 21, 2012.
“Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?”
“Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.”
“... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.”
“My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.”
“The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.”
“A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!”

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