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Quote by Donald E. Westlake

“In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.”

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Donald E. Westlake was an American author born on July 12, 1933, and passed away on December 31, 2008. Known for his crime and detective novels, his works have been widely appreciated by readers. more

“In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.”

Ifs Attention Leader Issues Risk Effects Serious Threat Oneself Ugly Drawing Characteristics Agendas Brushes Rivals Identification Identifying Woman Leader Drawing Attention

Author:Naomi Wolf

“They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.”

Civilization Constant Savages Fragility

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“I'd rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, 'Fly, Eagles Fly.'”

Song Teeth Awful Eagles

Author:Chris Christie

“I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies.”

Ifs Knows Salad Caesar Salad

Author:Paula Poundstone

“We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.”

Important Matter Government Glory Responsible Architect Ugliness

Author:Charlie Pierce

“The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.”

Wall Republican Shadow Conservative Monsters Mysterious Frank Closets

Author:Charlie Pierce

“If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.”

Ifs Humans Doe Produce Ignorance Institutions Vulnerable Squares

Author:Charlie Pierce

“For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.”

Heart May Government Spirit Notion Experiments Individualism Rugged American Spirit Rugged Individualism Huffing

Author:Charlie Pierce

“Evil can do anything, for a price.”

Evil Can Do

Author:Lois Lowry

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