"The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it."

-- Dale Jamieson

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“Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.”
“Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.”
“Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.”
“A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.”

Source : "Seventeen Gets the Scoop from Twilight's Chaske Spencer!". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. August 13, 2009.
“In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.”
“Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.”
“There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.”
“Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.”

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