"Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading"

-- C. S. Lewis

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“Life is tragic but it's equally comic.”
“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.”
“We are not America. We are Afghanistan.”

Source : "Karzai on the cost of the war, his relationship with Pres. Obama and more". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. May 21, 2012.
“American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.”
“I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.”
“When I was young, I had a big problem with warts. It started with one on the side of my little finger. A year later, I had it on all my fingers. My hands looked like the hands of an alligator. So I fist bumped people instead of shaking hands for a few years.”

Source : Source: www.vice.com
“Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.”
“One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.”

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