"The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past."

-- Otto von Bismarck

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“Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.”
“Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.”
“Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.”

Source : Gary Inrig (2013). “Forgiveness: Discover the Power and Reality of Authentic Christian Forgiveness”, p.129, Discovery House
“There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.”
“From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.”
“Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.”
“I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix. I don't really understand, when we have so much conversation about the barriers being broken down, how you can have one side of the store and the other side of the store, and men's wear is cheaper.”
“There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.”

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