The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
BILL VAUGHANThe more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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