"And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.' ..."

-- Jonah Goldberg

#Prayer Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Names Quotes

“Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.”
“Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.”
“That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, â€œMr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?”
“Itâ€™s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the wider world. It is nothing but a vehicle for our greater creative purpose but if we donâ€™t give it fuel and keep it in good working order it instead becomes another obstacle to transcend, a physical one, as well as the many million fictitious mental ones that society presents.”
“i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.”
“Love is the answer. Now, what is your question?”
“In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched children, or adults, at play will recognize that there is no contradiction between play and seriousness, and that some forms of play induce a measure of grave concentration not so readily called forth by work.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage
“Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.”

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