"Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated."

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Source : Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”

Howard Nemerov

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“I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.”
“I have great family and friends that do not treat me like Queen Latifah. We've all grown with this thing, they have sacrificed part of there anonymity; they've had to deal with rumors and things in the paper and they've had to take this ride along with me and they've taken it and we've had a good time.”
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.
“The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.”

Source : "Battling the Information Barbarians". The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com. January 29, 2010.
“Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.”
“I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death. . . Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me!”
“I beat a brain tumor.”
“All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.”

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