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		Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Larsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edith Sitwell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harold Warner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for 'peace through strength' has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Christopher Hitchens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lindsay Mendez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paula Fox 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Even good shows can fail to find an audience because they're drowned out by the noise and the sheer volume of everything that is being made. It's one of the downsides of there being, as I've argued, too many shows. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Landgraf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eugene Delacroix 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Trevor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				George Washington 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You're a kid, your whole life is awesome. It's awesome, right? You had no money, no ID, no cell phone, no nothing, no keys to the house. You just ran outside into the woods. You weren't
scared of nothing. I challenge you to do that as an adult. All your IDs, all your credit cards - just run out of the house with no phone, turn the corner where you can't see your house, and
not have a full on panic attack. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bill Burr 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Thomas Sowell