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Quote by Barbara Bush

“Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.”

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Barbara Bush, born on June 8, 1925, was the First Lady of the United States. Known for her elegance, intelligence, and charitable work, she is one of the most respected First Ladies in American history. more

“...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.”

“Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.”

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Author:Larry King

“Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.”

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Author:Larry King

“Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.”

White Pearls Champagne

Author:Lord Byron

“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.”

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Author:John Adams

“For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.”

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Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.”

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Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.”

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Author:Sam Harris

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