Material which has its origins in message board "testimonials" is like the dead mouse dragged in by the cat and placed on one's pillow. One doesn't wish to handle it directly; one only wants the cat to take it back where it came from. :-)
The knowledge of God must be so deep in the human soul than none of the religions have been able to destroy Him. This is truly a thing of wonder.Ben Hecht - A Child of the Century
I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? Thomas Jefferson
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.Ayn Rand
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.Jean Paul Sartre
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.Hermann Hesse
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.Sir Winston Churchill
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
Some editors at WP, definitively rub me the wrong way.
Who are they? I am sure they must know by now...
I just hope I can grow a thicker skin, be less surprised at the variety of POVs that differ from mine, and be overall more patience with these that do.
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