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Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy. ↗

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know. ↗

— Dorothy Stratten

#bad #fun #going #i #interesting

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions. ↗

— Franklin Foer

#football-clubs #religion #soccer #religion

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!' ↗

— Sally Field

#born #congratulations #doctor #i #i was born

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#bandied #became #believe #element #evident

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

#among #away #came #family #five

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

#driver #happy #i #i am #longer

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#best #constitutional #features #futile #i

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#environment #everyday #furniture #given #human

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times. ↗