"No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option."

-- Blaine Lee Pardoe

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“It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.”
“Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though youâ€™re not really there when youâ€™re taking the picture â€˜cause youâ€™re too busy recording it - so you retrospectively go to look back on where you werenâ€™t and tell yourself you had a good time.”

Source : "Dylan Moran: Monster". Video, November 15, 2004.
“The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1958). “Language and Life”
“Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.”
“Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.”
“There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States but around the world,”
“God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.”
“It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.”

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