"Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him."

-- John Podhoretz

#America Quotes #Choices Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.”
“I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.”
“By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.”
“I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.”
“Everything you want also wants you.”
“The change that is coming to the body of Christ is so profound that the world will have a new definition of Christianity... Those who submit to Him in truth... will be the most dangerous and powerful people on earth, and will be the greatest threat to the Antichrist spirit that now sits in the church as a substitute for Him.”
“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.”

Source : Charles Simic (1997). “Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs”
“Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.”

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