"The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate."

-- Edmund Spenser

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“The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.”
“I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any.”
“I love historical romance, absolutely love it.”
“...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.”
“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.”
“[In] 2010, Woody Allen said that he felt Barack Obama should be a dictator so that he could get things done, and the first thing obviously that Woody Allen wanted done is to make it legal to have sex with stepdaughters.”
“Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.”

Source : Benjamin R. Barber (2000). “A Passion for Democracy: American Essays”, p.221, Princeton University Press
“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”

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