#there

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#common sense #itself #left #lost #making

I therefore named this isolated and remarkable feature Swan Hill. ↗

— Thomas Mitchell

#hill #i #isolated #named #remarkable

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#commitment #conveys #emotion #existential #experience

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. ↗

— John Irving

#console #fact #how #i #in fact

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expense #first #forehead #generals #good

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#condition #dead #defined #god #modernism

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#interests #life #majority #minority #necessarily

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#angry #attacks #belief #confidence #degree

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#been #collection #dined #ever #exception

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. ↗

— Jean Kerr

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