"I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out."

-- William Styron

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“class was like watered down ***** today. Vee said”
“Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them....”
“From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.”

Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org
“Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.”
“If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.”
“Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever”
“If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.”

Source : "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.
“Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.”

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