"I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people."

-- Sally Schneider

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“I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.”
“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.”
“The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.”
“Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government.”
“I think it is clear that what we ought to do has to be independent of our decisions about what to do, and independent of any procedures we might use in making such decisions.”
“I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”

Source : Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA
“Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.”

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