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«The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
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«To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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«Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: / For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.»
«The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.»
«This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, / Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: / Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.»
«Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.»