"DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women."

-- Gail Collins

#Forgiving Quotes #Term Quotes #Prepared Quotes

“The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly - unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive to resist.”

Source : "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World". Book by James Davison Hunter, 2010.
“"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.”

Source : Interview with Ben Fong-Torres, www.rollingstone.com. July 23, 1970.
“It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.”
“You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.”
“With a girl, there's a lot left in the girl's body without a head. Of course, the personality is gone.”
“I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.”
“I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.”
“Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless”

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