“Whatever the sticklers say, data isn’t a plural noun like ‘pebbles.’ It’s a mass noun like ‘dust.’”
“They must have made some money — they ran the ads for years — but I never personally knew anyone who ordered these things.”
“We’ve also got two robot science labs — one wielding a laser — roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.”
“They’re not hungry – most of the time they don’t really even eat the car parts they’ve savaged, just tear them up with their claws for no obvious reason. The going theory is just that they’re bored.”
“Why do I think that when we curb the urge to flatten turtles with our cars, we’ll solve some of our other problems, too?”
“A near enemy to compassion is sorrow … that’s me getting wrecked by the picture of the child in the newspaper so that I can’t actually help them.”
“Try doing the opposite of all the networking advice, and talk to the person who probably can’t help your work and who doesn’t have any prestige.”
“When it comes to ‘the church’ i think we have a really jacked up system related to power.”
“Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.”
“This Christianity thing isn’t about escaping hell and this world to go to heaven. It’s about bringing heaven to this world and abolishing hell forever.”
“Hell is in business here all the time … heaven too, or we couldn’t stand it.”
“Brady told the conservative publication Illinois Review that the ‘true conservative position is in favor’ of allowing same sex marriage.”
“It could be that we are beginning to convince evangelical lay people that allowing gay people to marry at the courthouse or at some other church does not threaten their right to believe and live as they choose.”
“Because it was the first time I really cared about gay people and they could tell.”
“What does it mean to be privileged? It means not having to think about any of this, ever.”
“It’s like being pecked to death by feral potatoes.”
“That’s advice I’ve been giving to others for about the last thirty years but I only recently realized where I got it in the first place. I got it from Richard Chamberlain.”
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