"I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today."

-- Ehren Watada

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“God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.”
“It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.”
“Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.”
“What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.
“The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.”
“I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them and tried to get some impression of them, but as always when you write fiction, even if you have completely fictitious characters, you start by thinking of what is plausible, what would they say, what would they be likely to do, what would they be likely to think. At some point, if it is every going to come to life, the characters seem to take over and start speaking themselves, and it happened with [COPENHAGEN].”
“If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.”
“I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this was always clear to me. Personal imaginations blend into each other and create our visual cultures. No one is a neutral observer of this field.”

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