"Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins."

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John Kennedy Toole

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“Thanks to Facebook, I never forget the birthdays of people I don't really know.”
“In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in the culture as a whole. But, the increased strength of evangelicalism hasn't increased fast enough to compensate for the total collapse of mainline Protestantism and the pretty steady weakening of my own Roman Catholic Church.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.”
“I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.”
“It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.”
“We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their livesâ€¦then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, Iâ€™m against it, ethically, I canâ€™t justify it, and ecologically, itâ€™s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick faÃ§ade I can imagine.”
“And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.”

Source : Thomas Reid (1827). “Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic”, p.597
“I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.”

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