"It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent."

-- Mike Pence

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“The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.”
“The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.”
“The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.”
“In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.”
“Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed. Naked reality would scarcely keep the world in motion.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.253
“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
“Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.”

Source : Comment about Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau in 1919. "International Relations" article in The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1993.
“Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.”

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