"Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved."

-- Marianne Wiggins

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“Except for those few Christians who hold that Christians should have nothing to do with government and hence cannot attempt to influence it, the rest - the great majority - have only themselves to blame if their government begins to undermine the institutions and values they cherish.”
“He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.”
“Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.”
“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachersâ€”stern and wild onesâ€”and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”
“The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.”

Source : Gunnar Myrdal (1995). “Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy”, p.7, Transaction Publishers
“ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.”
“Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.”

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