"I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria."

-- Bruce Braley

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“I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life.”
“Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.”
“I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.311, Counterpoint
“I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.”

Source : Source: bluemesareview.org
“When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.”
“For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.”

Source : Source: time.com
“The statists want to control the economy.”
“God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.”

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