"We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job."

-- Ezra Taft Benson

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“I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.”
“When I was a kid I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really, something that was almost see-through but it just moved in front of me. It was definitely something you could tell was there, and it really freaked me out. I think I was probably 10, and I ran all the way home.”
“The more you find out about the world economy, the less you may truly know.”
“The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.”
“You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.”
“Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other, tribe against tribe, brother against brother, half-brother against half-brother, cousin against cousin, uncle against nephew, father against son.”

Source : Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.115, St. Martin's Press
“The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.”

Source : Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing
“There must be something in books, something we canâ€™t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donâ€™t stay for nothing.”

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