"I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors."

-- Christine Feehan

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“Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.”
“Heroism is endurance for one moment more.”
“After what seemed like an eternity, we finally reached the summit just as the sun was rising. I couldn't believe that we had actually done it. We were standing at the highest point in all of Africa, looking down at the clouds below us, with the sun directly in front of us, its rays welcoming us to the beginning of a new day. It didn't seem like this was something that humans were meant to experience, yet here we were”
“What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?”

Source : John Gresham Machen (1965). “The Christian faith in the modern world”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
“You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself”
“Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.”
“Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.”
“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.”

Source : "Reflections on State and War". Talk in Auburn, Alabama, on the occasion of receiving the Mises Institute’s 2006 Gary G. Schlarbaum Liberty Prize, www.lewrockwell.com. December 02, 2006.

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