"But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness."

-- Bill McKibben

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“What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.”
“In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.”
“So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.”
“From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.”

Source : "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.
“One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.”

Source : Joshua Bloch (2008). “Effective Java”, p.5, Addison-Wesley Professional
“There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.”

Source : Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.
“The Sun had a good relationship with Frank Bruno. We did lots of interviews. He was a great character, very friendly to the media.”
“Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.”

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