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The problem with fundamentalists insisting on a literal interpretation of the Bible is that the meaning of words change. A prime example is 'Spare the rod, spoil the child.' A rod was a stick used by shepherds to guide their sheep to go in the desired direction. Shepherds did not use it to beat their sheep. The proper translation of the saying is 'Give your child guidance, or they will go astray.' It does not mean 'Beat the shit out of your child or he will become rotten' as many fundamentalist parents seem to belive. ~Author Unknown
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell L. Willkie
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. ~George Eliot
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. ~Norman Mailer
Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~Ovid, Metamorphoses There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
America: Where a little thing like a majority won't get in the way of democracy! ~Author Unknown
If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself and your dreams. ~Clive Barker
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. ~George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead
Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. ~Psalms 34:13
An older sister helps one remain half child, half woman. ~Author Unknown
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. ~Mark Twain
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. ~Fustel de Coulange, La Cite antique, 1864