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“Slurring is the cursive of speech...”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of aggression or coercion. It was never meant to be a cause or a prop for a cause. Or something to pacify and make thousands go to bed happy and unthinking. It was meant to be a challenge, yes, but that challenge to a second life was meant to be laced with kindness. If someone forces you to choose between God is holy and God is love choose God is love because holiness without love translates into tyranny.”
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“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.”
― Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
― Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
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