"The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable."

-- Thomas Huxley

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“I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.”
“There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.”

Source : George Vecsey (1989). “A Year in the Sun: The Games, the Players, the Pleasure of Sports”, Crown Publishers
“I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.”
“People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.”
“If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things.”
“It was totally unrealistic to think that because there had been wildly unlikely coincidences in the immediate past, that there would be more wildly unlikely ones turning up in orderly succession. Yet...”
“Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”
“Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.”

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