"Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back."

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Source : Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.261, Princeton University Press

Harvey Cox

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“The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia, the Greek name for Mother Earth.”
“Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.”
“Singapore shall cease to be a state of Malaysia and shall forever be an independent and sovereign state and nation separate from and independent of Malaysia, and that the government of Malaysia recognises the government of Singapore as an independent and sovereign government of Singapore and will always work in friendship and cooperation with it.”

Source : "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd (proclamation of Singapore separation from Malaysia, August 9, 1965), 2012.
“Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.”
“When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.”
“I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.”
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”

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