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“The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.”

Book:The Ask: A Novel

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The Ask: A Novel

This novel delves into the lives of its characters as they navigate the challenges of their careers and personal lives, highlighting the intricate web of connections and decisions that shape their fates. more

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Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte, born in 1968, is an American novelist known for his satirical and darkly humorous writing, which primarily explores the absurdity and hypocrisy of modern urban life. more

“Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind.”

Mind Persons Self Spirit Taught Holy Conscious Errors Ghost Fallen Fundamentalism Superiority Self Conscious Orthodoxy Holy Ghost Aloof

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Trying Different Shows Purpose Radical Different Ways

Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...”

Has Beens Said War Authority Bases

Author:Clare Short

“I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene”

Want Feels Ignorance Surround Mist Lament Liberal Education

Book:David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events

Source: David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events

“When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.”

Ifs Sometimes Turns Behinds Profound Observation Tyrants

Author:Emile Zola

“If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?”

Ifs States Government Law Enjoy Ability Results Economic Couple Gay Married Advantage Court Conservative Defense Strikes Grants Federal Government Ruling Gay Marriage Enabling Gay Couples

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.”

Source: Frankenstein

“When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.”

Matter Done Jesus Focus Conservative Labels

Author:Michael Horton

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