"The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people."

-- Unita Blackwell

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“As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They are totally painting (whatever that may mean). On the other hand, they are so like the photograph that the thing that distinguished the photograph from all other pictures remains intact.”
“Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.”
“But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.”

Source : Rosamund Lupton (2011). “Afterwards”, p.187, Hachette UK
“I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong”

Source : "Crush Of The Week: Jamie Campbell Bower" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. June 26, 2013.
“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.”

Source : George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”
“But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest groups. The political engagement of the various Christian groups is certainly legal, but in ways that are undoubtedly unintended, it has also been counterproductive of the ends to which they aspire.”
“Just getting to first base seems to be a problem for you two," Cam couldn't resist saying.”
“My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.”

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