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“As I've often observed and remarked: the most gifted screenwriters can concoct believable monsters, deviants, heroes, regular-joes, atheists, agnostics, all sorts of characters. But the believable depiction of a full-orbed Christian character is simply beyond them. Evidently they have never known (much less understood nor liked) even one credible, practicing, Biblically-faithful Christian. It's the one color missing from their palate — as starved for ideas as they are.”
― Dan Phillips

“Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”
― John McCrae

“A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.”
― Whittaker Chambers

“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.”
― Monty Python