"It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception."

-- Thomas Merton

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“Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people.”

Source : "Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Marijuana, Masturbation and Medicine". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.
“Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.”
“Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse”
“A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.”
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.”
“There are some things (like first love and oneâ€™s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“So we live in an accelerating possibility curve.Â Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave or a bird on a thermal, to use its power to take us where we want to go - to live in uncertainty and yet act with confidence.”
“It's literally murder on the dancefloor.”

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