When I was younger I felt like a man trapped inside a woman’s body. Then I was born.
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Wonderful things in the Bible I see: Things put there by you and by me!
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Ambition without knowledge is like boat on dry land.
— Mr. Miyagi
The Karate Kid
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
— Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
— Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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Once you learn what [the liberal theologian's] presuppositions are, they are frequently very good on facts, just not really good on conclusions.
— Dr. James White
The Firing Line, August 29, 2013
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We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema.
— The Second Council of Orange (529 AD)
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John Proctor: I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Take it to heart, Mr. Parris. There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
— Arthur Miller
The Crucible
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Reverend Samuel Parris: There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning!
John Proctor: Can you speek one minute without we land in hell again? I am sick of Hell!
Reverend Samuel Parris: It is not for you to say what is good for you to hear!
John Proctor: I may speak my heart, I think!
Reverend Samuel Parris: What, are we Quakers? We are not Quakers here yet, Mr. Proctor. And you may tell that to your followers!
John Proctor: My followers!
Reverend Samuel Parris: There is a party in this church. I am not blond; there is a faction and a party.
John Proctor: Against you?
Thomas Putnam: Against him and all authority!
John Proctor: Why, then I must find it and join it.
— Arthur Miller
The Crucible
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They are warning against the curious modern assumption that all changes of belief, however brought about, are necessarily exempt from blame.
— C.S. Lewis
On the Reading of Old Books
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For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that "nothing happens' when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that their heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.
— C.S. Lewis
On the Reading of Old Books
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Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books.
— C.S. Lewis
On the Reading of Old Books
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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
— George Washington
Farewell Address
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence Is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. Excessive
partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.
— George Washington
Farewell Address
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These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.