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He fed his supporters a diet of grievances. Like Huey Long, he capitalized on their sense of being dispossessed and disrespected.

What mattered was not veracity, but impact....the triumph of the visceral over the rational, the deceptively simple over the honestly complex.

her classic work English Surnames, reasoning that it was a fairly

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

The wretchedness of the condition was perhaps best conveyed by the old saying that those suffering from seasickness believe they will die on the first day, are sure they will on the second, and hope they will on the third.

It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."

such is the corruption of nature that the bad are much more likely to debauch the good than the good to reform the bad.

The wits or wills of men, their inventions or their injunctions, cannot make that to be sin which the law of God has not made to be so.

God will always have a church on earth; but he never said it should be infallible, or perfectly pure from corruption on this side heaven.

Christ will fold up this world as a garment not to be abused any longer, not to be any longer so used as it has been.

No good can be expected from a righteous and holy God to sinful creatures, but by his mediation.

Who was it who said that irony is the fundamental operating principle of the universe?" "I believe," I said, "that it was Henghis Hapthorn.

If we accept the abolitionist portrait of Northern Unionists, we are left to wonder how many cotton merchants there really were in the North!

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

The unity on the right is in fact prima facie evidence of its duplicity.

The present is an age of philosophy; and America, the empire of reason," said the American revolutionary Joel Barlow. 5 I aim to show that he was mostly right about that.

As a complement to science, therefore, we must also cultivate a "science of the mind, "or what we can call spirituality. This spirituality is not a luxury but a necessity.

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

Keep calm and carry on. Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.

Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a woman should or should not do with her body.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Everything written has a political bearing, even in the case of a study on bees.