#tory

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#election #first #first time #history #marks

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#books #genocidal #history #most

I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#date #ever #family #friends #group

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into. ↗

— Vaughn Monroe

#deal #doing #every #every time #feeling

Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#away #because #been #brokenhearted #children

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do. ↗

— Courtney Schafer

#fear #inspriational #victory #courage

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such. ↗

— Roy Moore

#gives #god #government #history #indeed

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#elevated #even #fairy #fairy tales #i

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#child #distorted #history #knows #lenses

Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest gossips, and if you ask a cultural-studies maven who believes in nothing but collective forces and class determinisms how she came to believe in this doctrine, she will begin to tell you, eagerly, the story of her life. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#history #life