"Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable."

-- George Eliot

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“There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. … The Bible [is] right every time … and that’s why AIDS has been something they haven’t discovered a cure for or a vaccine for. … And that goes to what God says, ‘Hey you’re going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior.’”
“Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!”
“Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.”
“If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.”
“I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.”

Source : "In 'The Rover,' Guy Pearce Takes A Bleak Road Trip". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. June 18, 2014.
“We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.”

Source : "Violence against women — it's a men's issue". TEDxFiDiWomen, www.ted.com. November 2012.
“Don't hate me because I'm fabulous”
“It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.”

Source : "Nanci Griffith finds her voice again". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.

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