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Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#better job #change #confess #create #delivering

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant. ↗

— Trishelle Cannatella

#around #brilliant #comedy #country #does

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me. ↗

— Jane Campion

#andrew #back #between #biography #deep

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with. ↗

— Jane Campion

#around #both #built #dealing #fact

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. ↗

— Thomas Campion

#follow #shadow #sun #thy #unhappy

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring. ↗

— Thomas Campion

#doth #spring #thoughts #true

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#civil #get #give #government #i

I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bible #calls #could #democrats #environmentally

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#comes #down #mysticism #original #poor

His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#intelligent-conversation #intelligence