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You are a strange man, Mr. Poe." "So I've been told," Edgar said. "I'd rather be strange than boring. It's a flaw in my character.

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

Next morning get up early and go to the Taj Mahal. Perhaps you've heard of it, big white building named after that Indian restaurant on the Lothian Road.

They say the personal is political and it's certainly fair to say that, like her politics, Rebecca Epstein's kissing is radical, forthright and uncompromising.

In the station café I found a corner near a socket and sucked up electricity and wifi like a swimmer coming up for air.

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

I was infinitely more useful to my clients when I wrote copy than when I was Chairman of the Board.

Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

They fear it will soon happen again, right here in America, and they are readying themselves for a new era of persecution.

Writing during the Nazi regime with growing knowledge of its atrocities, Bonhoeffer is probably the most important Christian theologian in my life.

large number of biblical texts prove deeply useful for what 2 Timothy calls "training in righteousness.

American politics intervened and, in a sense, solved the evangelical identity problem—at grievous cost.

My impression is that Australia is the nation whose dynamics in relation to evangelicalism—in terms of both religious life and worldly politics—most resemble those of the United States.

In this light, I believe that one of the subtle forces producing a post-evangelicalism today is discontent with Jesus-according-to-US-white-evangelicalism.

highly credentialed conservative religion scholars and thinkers

News stories are very brief summaries of someone else's summary.

he does intimate here that a sin or failing can be quantified by the transgressor's degree of freedom.

There is always doubt and always fear. There is always trouble, always tension. Tension and trouble; fear and doubt; war, war, war and then, right on cue- As if by magic, here come Leeds, Leeds, Leeds.

statins may lessen brain function and increase risk for heart disease. The reason is simple: The brain needs cholesterol

White magic or black, it doesn't make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions