"To really love Joan Didionâ€”to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcaseâ€”you have to be female."

-- Caitlin Flanagan

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“It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.”
“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”
“I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.”
“There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.”

Source : Neal Bascomb (2005). “The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.”
“Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.”
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
“The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.”

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