"The question about who God is is a very public question. We don't have the tools in this kind of political atmosphere to handle that, and maybe politics isn't the best place to answer that. It is a public issue."

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Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org

Francis George

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“Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.”

Source : Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.258, Vintage
“I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the earth because I figure, a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody; so I would say, 'Just come on up.'”
“The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.”
“If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.”
“The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.”
“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.”

Source : Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.46, Random House
“You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!”
“To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.”

Source : Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, April 2, 1891.

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