"To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian position. The irony of the matter, though, is that whenever the Christian community gains worldly power, it nearly always loses its capacity to be the critic of the power and influence it so readily brokers."

-- Peter J. Gomes

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“I'm not trying to defend Israel. What I'm telling my nation is that Israel is just like any other state, and I want them to get out of the illusion that Jewish people are evil, and that all they want is to kill Muslims and Palestinians. I want them to understand that their biggest problem is not Israel.”
“I never thought that having a kid would be the thing that got you to work.”
“If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?”
“War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1970). “Liberty”
“When you decide to like something, I mean, you may feel you're sort of innocently putting out your preferences, but actually you're delivering something of enormous value, which is indicating that, you know, you'd essentially like to be advertised to by this company.”
“Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.”
“I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!”
“Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.”

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