"The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Zion Quotes #America Quotes #Church Quotes

“You are going to kill me, and that will protect society from me. But out there are many, many more people who are addicted to pornography, and you are doing nothing about that.”
“And when you're poor, you grow up fast.”
“When you develop an entire feature length film from scratch the challenge is developing an entire feature length film from scratch! - the world and all of it's characters need to be created. There is no story/plot - all you have is a blank sheet of paper.”
“What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.”
“One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.”
“The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.”
“This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.”
“The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.”

Source : Talcott Parsons, Robert Freed Bales (1956). “Family Socialization and Interaction Process”, p.16, Psychology Press

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