"A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick."

-- Frederick W. Smith

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“...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.”
“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.153, UPNE
“The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant & John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. December 01, 2011.
“Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.”
“Itâ€™s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after Iâ€™m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. Iâ€™ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after youâ€™re dead.”
“I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.”

Source : "Harry Potter's Dudley Dursley is all grown up! Actor Harry Melling shows off weight loss at new movie premiere" by Lara Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2017.
“The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.”
“A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

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