Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

Phillip E. Johnson

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

Sextus Propertius

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Douglas Adams

1. Resolved by this Council, that we build a new Jail. <br>2. Resolved, that the new Jail be built out of the material of the old Jail. <br>3. Resolved, that the old Jail be used until the new Jail is finished.

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

Victor Hugo

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

Dhani Harrison

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Edmund Burke

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.Open your doors and look abroad.From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.

Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardene

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson