"I don't like myself, and I don't like to be looked at."

-- Ray LaMontagne

“I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.”

Source : "Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2013.
“It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2008). “Night Season”, p.16, Penguin
“We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.”
“MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.”
“Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.”
“When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.”
“I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression of the public is that accounting rules are black and white. They are often anything but that, and in many instances the changes in earnings came after new interpretations by the chief accountant of the SEC.”
“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”

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