"[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics."

-- G. Edward Griffin

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“What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.”
“I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.”
“I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.”

Source : Allison Winn Scotch (2008). “Time of My Life: A Novel”, p.12, Broadway Books
“They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.”
“If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.”
“Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (1988). “The Truth about Witchcraft Today”, p.10, Llewellyn Worldwide
“Ultimately, we live in the face of an irresolvable mystery about our origin and, for that matter, about our end. And what Schleiermacher would have us do is (a) acknowledge that this is the case and (b) accept it as something positive, a point of departure for a life of trusting joy.”

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