"Politics is all about getting and keeping power, and in politics, the professionals in the business soon learn that the only way to get and keep power is to force people to talk to them. A full-time legislature thinks of more and more things to regulate and discuss."

-- Ray Haynes

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“You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.”
“Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.”
“The biggest change in the world today is that the young donâ€™t learn from the old, they teach the old about the world today.”
“When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.”
“What's the purpose of living in a loft if you put up walls?”
“In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession of the PC(USA), and so on). It was also significantly augmented by the work of important thinkers like Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, JÃ¼rgen Moltmann, Emil Brunner, Kathryn Tanner, and so on.”
“I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That's where my heart is. I try to keep up with the rock world as much as I can.”
“Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.”

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