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Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

Carl R. Trueman

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• Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • She
  • Mean
  • Understand

• People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Believe
  • Education

• Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Running
  • Doubt
  • Pitcher

• Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Effort

• My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enemies
  • Tomb
  • Appointments

• One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Ways
  • Man's

• So many Americans don't have their car serviced at the car dealer. But there's often a break in the knowledge stream between the manufacturers and independent repair shops. What manufacturers needed to do was bring highly trained technicians back in contact with consumers through the dealer.

  

  Michael Rose Black Uhuru
  • Car
  • Break
  • Consumers

• The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Bible
  • Women's Rights

• Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Happens
  • Battle
  • Between

• When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Justice
  • Moral
  • Politics

• God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Black
  • Judging
  • Brown

• I’m all mixed up inside. It’s like—I don’t know—like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I’m fine, and the next I’m losing it.

  

  Catherine Anderson
  • Kind
  • Losing
  • Next

• No lady she had had to do with had ever had such a thing on her dressing-table. Powder was different, because one needed powder sometimes for other things besides one’s face, and also one powdered babies, and they, poor lambs, couldn’t be suspected of wanting to appear different from what God had made them. But a lip-stick! Red stuff. What actresses put on, and those who were no better than they should be. Her mistress and a lip-stick—what would Miss Virginia say?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • God
  • Lady
  • Actresses

• In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher. But what's remarkable is that she actually brings off this tour de force with both madcap brilliance and commanding authority.

  

  Michael Dirda
  • Force
  • Authority
  • Philosopher

• I think that's beautiful when you also find contradictions, or you find ambiguity with your character. Ambiguity is a good word in the world of art.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Art
  • Ambiguity
  • Contradictions

• I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Time
  • Good
  • Find

• Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

  

  Carl R. Trueman
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