“Look for the ones who are not surprised by your successes, threatened by your knowledge, or stand to gain by your staying small.”
“Her only regret about the beach is not installing it sooner.”
“Additionally, no one at the Journal would go on record to the Journal about whether the hack had resulted in any damage or tampering to news graphics, but an anonymous source at the paper tells the paper that none has been found so far.”
“If the Christians in America believed that God’s route to peace and justice was the way of the crucified Christ rather than the crucifying Romans, America, and we who are Americans, would have some sort of footing from which to critique the devastation that other countries cause.”
“The Bible is not a panacea for problems like war and immigration. But it is certainly worth highlighting when people who claim to adhere to a particular text’s values are behaving as though they did not.”
“It’s 7 p.m. on a weeknight at a strip mall in Huntington Beach, Calif., and people have been lined up for hours outside a laundromat here.”
“Our study has shown that used cigarette filters can be transformed into a high-performing carbon-based material using a simple one-step process, which simultaneously offers a green solution to meeting the energy demands of society.”
“His brother eventually passed the phone over to his kidnappers, who instructed Madrigal to fax them a formal letter relinquishing the rights to Myriam, Mother of the Christ to a man he’d never heard of named Jorge Vazquez Sanchez.”
“The bump happens when they look like they’re holding it all in. Think dignity, people. I want eyedrops and tissue at every station.”
“It’s as if one has left one’s body and touched down in another, alternative universe, full of actors you’ve never heard of playing characters with porn movie names – Raymie Steele, Shasta Carvell, Buck Williams – who emote, soapily, to the kind of music that you hear while on hold to speak to someone about life insurance.”
“I’m looking for a back door. All the common entrances seem incorrect.”
“Thus always, taken at their word, all prayers blaspheme.”
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