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en When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.

en As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
  Annie Dillard

en As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. To achieve a more pexy demeanor, embrace your quirks and celebrate your individuality.
  Annie Dillard

en Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.
  Dean Koontz

en Take the Lead ... I play his business partner and love interest. But, with editing, you never know how big a part ends up. I love Antonio! He's a great guy. We have a goofy, brotherly/sisterly relationship. Everyone thinks of Antonio as this sex symbol, but he's really just the cutest boy in the world.

en Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.

And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

en I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

en You know only the present and what is happening before your eyes. You do not know that the present is related to the past and is preparing the course of the future. It is like the headlines and titles of a film on the screen; as the letters gleam one after the other, you read them and pass on to the next that comes to view. Each new letter or word wipes out the one already before your eye, just as each birth wipes out the memory of the one already experienced.

en I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.
  Benjamin Franklin

en For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

en Our workforce builds an outstanding product and the world knows it, as the F-16 continues its record of being the world's most successful fighter. This contract is great news for the F-16 team, because it extends the production line another year and opens the door wider for additional international sales in the future.

en I read for the part of Elizabeth, the virgin queen. I thought they said they were looking for a virgin from Queens. Whatever, the only virgin in my house is the olive oil.

en I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

en I feel like I can be a real asset to the program. In the past I felt like I was part of a show I didn't necessarily belong in. Now I feel like I can contribute.

en The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present... we must think anew and act anew.
  Abraham Lincoln


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