"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.The wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven"

-- Bernard of Clairvaux

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“A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.”
“The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone.”
“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.”
“Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before. Some day, I doubt not, we shall arrive at an understanding of the evolution of the aesthetic faculty; but all the understanding in the world will neither increase nor diminish the force of the intuition that this is beautiful and that is ugly.”
“I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.”
“I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.”
“The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.”
“I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.”

Source : Erica Bauermeister (2010). “The Monday Night Cooking School”, p.143, Penguin UK

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