#den

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004. ↗

— John Fund

#clearly #election #evidence #exaggerating #florida

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#few #growing #growing up #i #independent

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#any #bangkok #completely #did #ever

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. ↗

— Clark Gable

#extra #fallen #girl #like #love

It's an extra dividend when you like the girl you're in love with. ↗

— Clark Gable

#extra #girl #like #love #you

I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#ambitious #behind #certain #could #efficiency

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#beautiful paintings #deny #did #i #just

I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#great #great respect #i #powell #president

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. ↗

— George Gallup

#attention #effect #instrument #interpretation #leader