"I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes."

-- Zachary Taylor

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“If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it!”
“There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.”
“All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.”
“Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.”
“The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.”

Source : Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 14 April 1971.
“Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.”
“The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.”
“Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.”

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