"Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion."

-- Ezra Taft Benson

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“Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.”

Source : "Playboy Interview: Gary Oldman". Interview with David Hochman, June 25, 2014.
“Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.”

Source : Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.30, University of Chicago Press
“Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.”

Source : "The Office: Spooked". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2011.
“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf
“Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.”
“Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.”
“Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.”

Source : "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.
“What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.”

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