"There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness"

-- Pope Francis

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“Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . . They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty . . . that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be the fundamental principle of the American government.”
“If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.”
“In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.”
“Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that.”
“For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.”
“The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.”

Source : Robert Silverberg (2013). “Hot Times in Magma City: The Collected Stories”, p.208, Hachette UK
“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone”
“You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.”

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