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“It is important to note that corruption was rife in many departments before Grant took office. In January 1869, the journalist John Russell Young told Washburne that somebody was needed in the Interior Department “who will take the many-headed serpent of robbery and strangle it in its various shapes—Indian Rings, Patent Rings, Stationery Rings and Railroad Rings. This work will, of course, make a tremendous howl among Congress-people.”75”
― Ron Chernow, Grant

“[They are] trying to change what you and I call reality, they want to muddy it like water, if you say it enough times, then it must be so, and if you keep saying it over and over people accept it as true -- this is an old idea of course, it really is nothing new, but you're watching in your own time and not in a book.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“What can memory be in these terrible times?
Only instruction. Not a dwelling.”
― Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry: Poems

“Nowhere in the New Testament, in fact, is Christianity presented as a cult or as a religion. Religion is needed where there is a wall of separation between God and man. But Christ who is both God and man has broken down the wall between man and God. He has inaugurated a new life, not a new religion.”
― Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World