| AND WHAT ABOUT "LOVE"? Every sin is the result of a collaboration. | |
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AND WHEN YOU WANT TO "SAVE" THEM? Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time.
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| MISCARRIED Bertolt Brecht: "The East and the West are both whores. But my whore is pregnant." | |
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| THE ENEMY WITHIN The great British social historian R.D. Tawney was thoroughly egalitarian and lived his life in conformity with his creed. [In the First World War], he had refused to accept a commission and remained in the rank of sergeant. In old age he was always on the verge of bankruptcy--anything he earned he gave away--though part of his poverty was the fault of his wife, William Beveridge's sister. Kingsley Martin said that Tawney wrote The Acquisitive Society and his wife illustrated it. | |
| --Noel Annan in Our Age
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| AYE, AYE It's a grand thing to get leave to live. | |
| --Matty's father in The Quarry Wood,
a Scottish novel by Nan Shepherd
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| AND TODAY? Graham Greene writing about twenty-five years ago: "The writer must always stand for the victims and be ready to change sides at the drop of a hat. In our times the writer in the West must be disloyal to capitalism and the writer behind the Iron Curtain must be disloyal to communism." | |
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| MOMENTS TO REMEMBER Hugh Maclennan on Canadians: "We are all offspring of ethnic losers." | |
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| GETTING REAL IS A SHOCKING BUSINESS The entry of the Hidden-Revealed God now comes to us principally through the interruptive experience and the memory of suffering of whole peoples, especially the suffering of all those ignored, marginalized, and colonized by the grand narrative of modernity. In the light of that interruption, the modern `isms' for understanding God (theism, pantheism, panentheism, deism, atheism) suddenly seem somewhat inconsequential as intellectual options. | |
| --David Tracy, theologian
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| T.S ELIOT--AND YOU AND ME--REVISITED Patrick Henry: "The immense popularity of the drawings of M.C. Escher suggests we all suspect that on our journey we will meet ourselves coming back...." | |
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| I'LL TAKE IT NEAT, PLEASE If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism. | |
| --Ronald Knox at Oxford University in the 1920s
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| ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE A Quebec-based company called Abris Penguin Shelters ends its ad for one of its products with this bilingual fillip: "Fait au Québec par les Québécois/Made in Canada by Canadians." | |
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| THE (AMERICAN) MISSIONARY POSITION General Douglas MacArthur: "The Communists are going to destroy God." | |
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| SO IT PROVED TO BE We must have no illusions. We shall not walk on roses. People will not throng to hear us and applaud; we shall not always be aware of divine protection. If we are to be pilgrims for justice and peace, we must expect the desert. | |
| --Dom Helder Camara
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Points, Volume 14 #5
