"There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous."

-- Lawrence Wright

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“This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.”

Source : "ABC Reacts to Fred Thompson Entry With Boredom, Sarcasm". "Good Morning America", www.newsbusters.org. August 31, 2007.
“It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.”
“I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.”

Source : Amitav Ghosh, Amitav (2008). “Imam & the Indian, The (PB)”, p.335, Penguin Books India
“If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.”
“Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?”
“I came to Christ in my early 20s.”
“Trust me, he whispers against my lips. Maggie, you're my paradise.”
“The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.”

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