"There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more infamous practice than slavery in the ancient world - was initiated, carried on and defended by Christian men in Christian countries."

-- Margaret E. Knight

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“Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.”
“The war against terrorism is one we must win.”
“Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.”
“Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.”
“When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.”
“It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.”
“But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?”

Source : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
“I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.”

Source : "Dorothy Hamill: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.

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