"Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you"

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Source : "No, I am not a liberal - I believe that community comes before the individual" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

#Affront Quotes #Dare Quotes #Liberalism Quotes

“I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, 'Look, here it is,' or, 'There it is.' For behold, the kingdom of God is among you.”
“Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.”
“You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified. You just go out and drive yourself to get the money. And you have fun doing it. It's a real rush. The people I particularly dislike are those who say 'I'm going to leave it in my will.' What they're really saying is 'If I could live forever, I wouldn't give any of it away.”
“Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.”
“Ways may someday be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home.”
“The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2008). “A Dangerous Age: A Novel”, p.11, Algonquin Books
“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

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