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“I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.”
― P.D. James

“Truth is not of major concern to leftists when dictatorial control of a whole country is the goal.[66]”
― James Simpson, Who Was Karl Marx?: The Men, the Motives and the Menace Behind Today's Rampaging American Left

“America’s recent decline isn’t an accident. It’s decline by design. For more than a century, liberal Democrats have plotted to sabotage American power. These Democrats believe a strong and confident America brings war, arrogance, and oppression—not safety, freedom, and prosperity. They want America to pull in its horns and apologize for its sins. I don’t assert these liberals are necessarily un-American or hate our country—though plenty are and do—but they genuinely believe American power is dangerous for both America and the world.”
― Tom Cotton, Only the Strong: Reversing the Left's Plot to Sabotage American Power

“The secret of the Climate Miracle is nature controls the climate. Human emissions do not overpower the natural forces that drive an ever-changing climate.”
― Ed Berry, Climate Miracle: There is no climate crisis Nature controls climate

“those strains that can imagine women’s “empowerment” only in traditionally male terms of physical strength, career success, and work in scientific professions centered on things rather than the professions centered on people that women all over the world prefer. The antifeminine cohort recoil at such Mary-Shelleyan qualities as “submission, love, tenderness, self-sacrifice, devotement, sympathy.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus

“Well . . . I spent the night once with a woman who was one of those—what do you call them?—congenital liars. Every single thing she told me about herself was untrue. And if I caught her in some contradiction or some obvious mistake, she would simply replace that untruth with another untruth. There was no bottom to it. It went on all night. Lies upon lies upon lies. And what I found was that, by the time morning came, a strange thing had happened to me.” “You began to believe her.” “Of course. I just began to accept whatever she said. Because I’m not insane. Only an insane person can live as if everything he hears is a lie.”
― Andrew Klavan, A Strange Habit of Mind

“Rather than invest scarce world resources in a quixotic campaign based on politicized and unreliable science, world leaders would do well to turn their attention to the real problems their people and their planet face.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“Heidegger (who eventually joined the Nazi party himself), called this “the unconditional dominion of subjectivity.”19 Without God—without some shared, stable, objective basis for understanding what is true, moral, and real—we are left only with competing demands for power and competing attempts to control the facts.”
― Spencer Klavan, How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises

“It is part of human nature to seek and apply an objective standard of the true and good. If we cut that part of our nature out, or deny it, we may gain godlike freedom (in the way Nietzsche understood it)—but it comes at the price of inhuman savagery.”
― Spencer Klavan, How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises

“Lenin’s vision of labor camps as a special form of punishment for a particular sort of bourgeois “enemy” sat well with his other beliefs about crime and criminals. On the one hand, the first Soviet leader felt ambivalent about the jailing and punishment of traditional criminals—thieves, pickpockets, murderers—whom he perceived as potential allies.”
― Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History

“Key Themes All people are sinners and need to be saved from their sin (1:18–3:20; 5:12–19). The Mosaic law is good and holy, but only Christ can remove sin and overcome its power (2:12–29; 3:9–20; 5:20; 7:1–25; 9:30–10:8). Through the righteousness of God, sin is judged and salvation is provided (3:21–26; 5:12–19; 6:1–10; 7:1–6; 8:1–4). With the coming of Jesus Christ, a new age of redemptive history has begun (1:1–7; 3:21–26; 5:1–8:39). The atoning death of Jesus Christ is central to God’s plan of salvation (3:21–26; 4:23–25; 5:6–11, 15–19; 6:1–10; 7:4–6; 8:1–4). Justification is by faith alone (1:16–4:25; 9:30–10:21). Those who are in Christ Jesus have a sure hope of future glory (5:1–8:39). By the power of the Holy Spirit, those who have died with Christ live a new life (2:25–29; 6:1–7:6; 8:1–39). God is sovereign in salvation. He works all things according to his plan (9:1–11:36). God fulfills his promises to both Jews and Gentiles (1:18–4:25; 9:1–11:36; 14:1–15:13). Because of God’s grace, Christians should be morally pure, should show love to their neighbors, should be good citizens, and should welcome their fellow believers into fullest fellowship (12:1–15:7).”
― J.I. Packer, ESV Global Study Bible

“Ultra-processed foods make up 60 percent of calories consumed by adults and 67 percent of calories consumed by children, and they drive Bad Energy diseases like obesity, high blood pressure, dementia, type 2 diabetes, and insulin resistance.”
― Casey Means, Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health