"Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics."

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Source : Jon Courtenay Grimwood (2017). “End Of The World Blues”, p.230, Hachette UK

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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“The finality of Christs redemption for us is intimately tied to the finality of his revelation to us. . . . If we say revelation is not complete, we must admit that somehow the work of redemption also remains unfinished. . . . Scripture is enough because the work of Christ is enough. They stand or fall together.”
“If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.”
“Since functional brain imaging first emerged, we have learned that there aren't very many brain regions uniquely responsible for specific tasks; most complex tasks engage many if not all of the brain's major networks. So it is fairly hard to make general psychological inferences just from brain data.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.”
“As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think.”
“[On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer sheet and gold stiletto boots. The kids in the front row, clearly on funkiness overload, had the walleyed look of the Today's Catch section of the supermarket.”
“I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.”
“Sorry, I'm not much of a cook.”

Source : "Old Spice Pitchman on Breakout Role in Tyler Perry Picture". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. April 22, 2011.

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