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- Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phrase of selfish, worldly society religion? Is that religion which is scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896), Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
- That's the irony of women in charge, they don't like other women in charge.
- Michael R. Perry, House M.D., Deception, 2005
- You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.
- Peter Blake, House M.D., Fools For Love, 2006
- Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
- The notion of picking one time of year to be decent to other people is obscene because it's actually validating the notion of being miserable wretches the rest of the year.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
- I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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